FILE - In a Thursday, Oct. 24, 1985 file photo, Coretta Scott King, center, wife of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and members of Congress and others hold a news conference on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. to discuss plans for the first annual holiday honoring King. For all the causes championed by Kennedy, who died Tuesday at 77 after nearly half a century in the Senate, he will be remembered in the South almost exclusively as the man who, in the face of resentment from many whites, delivered on the promises his brothers made to help end segregation. From left are, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.; Rep. Mickey Leland, D-Texas; King; Sen. Charles McCurdy Mathias, Jr., R-Md.; Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan. (AP Photo/Scott Stewart, File)