“Beside every great man is a great woman,” my husband frequently muses. He reminds me often, ”a woman is a man’s most valuable resource.”
Dora McDonald, a great ”behind the scenes” woman, passed away Saturday, January 13, 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 81. In 1960, she was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s personal secretary. Nevertheless, she was much more, serving as confidante not only to Dr. King but his wife, Coretta Scott King (who passed away Monday, January 30, 2006) and family as well, being “entrusted with [Dr. King's] secrets and counted on to look after his family if something happened to him,” Ernie Suggs of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported today.
As we remember the life and ministry of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. tomorrow, let us also remember the wonderful contributions the women in his life made as well. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a great man who, in spite of the odds, accomplished much. But it was those great women by his side, particularly Coretta and Dora, that allowed him to become the man God called him to be.
“It was a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week job,” she said in a 1989 interview. “But there was never a time — and I can say this in all truthfulness, from the time I went to work for him until his death — that I regretted what I was doing or where I was at that moment. There was never a time.”
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