Herbert Coulton Honored at Pentagon for Civil Rights Work

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ARLINGTON - Fresh out of the Army in 1962, Herbert Coulton agreed to work with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He never thought that he would be at the Pentagon one day being honored for his work with the late civil rights leader.

"I was overwhelmed to have been invited to come here," Coulton said Wednesday afternoon at the Pentagon. "It's something you don't ask for, it just comes."

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Herbert Coulton Honored at Pentagon for Civil Rights Work

Coulton, born in Petersburg, was recruited by King to serve as the field secretary for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for the states of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee. Coulton was recruited by King after the Rev. Wyatt T. Walker s...

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