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D’Army Bailey, 73, Activist Who Founded Museum Where Dr. King Was Shot, Dies

Mr. Bailey campaigned to transform the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, site of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, into a civil rights museum.

Barry Kowalski, Prosecutor in Rodney King Case, Is Dead at 74

“He’s been called the Justice Department’s pit bull,” a colleague said of Mr. Kowalski, who prosecuted many high-profile civil rights cases.

Richard Booth, Self-Crowned King of Used Books, Dies at 80

He transformed a fading Welsh town into a tourist magnet by buying books in bulk from colleges, libraries, defunct wholesalers and collectors’ estates.

Kim Chan, Who Had Roles in TV and ‘King of Comedy,’ Is Dead

Mr. Chan was an actor who became a familiar face in a variety of Asian roles, notably as Jerry Lewis’s butler in the Martin Scorsese film “The King of Comedy.”

Maria Cole, Singer and Wife of Nat King Cole, Dies at 89

Mrs. Cole, a jazz singer, was performing in Harlem when she met her husband.

Izola Ware Curry, Who Stabbed King in 1958, Dies at 98

In 1958, she stabbed the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at a Harlem book signing — an episode that a decade later would become a rhetorical touchstone in the last oration of his life.

John G. Davies, Rodney King Judge and Olympic Medalist, Dies at 90

A record-breaking swimmer, he was credited with helping to prevent further rioting for his handling of the second trial of four police officers.

THE SITUATION IN SPAIN.; GEN. DOMINGUEZ NOT TO BE CONCILIATED-- THE FUNERAL OF KING, ALFONSO.

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Paid Notice: Deaths KING, MAY TARLTON ''TOPSY'' DOUGHERTY

KING--May Tarlton ''Topsy'' Dougherty, 90, passed away at her home on Monday, August 9, 2004. She was born December 30, 1913, in Austin, Texas to James R. and Genevieve Dougherty. Mrs. King attended the Hockaday School in Dallas and later the University of Texas in Austin. Mrs. King was preceded in death by her husbands, Bruce Beverly Baxter, Jr. and John Allen King; her sons, Bruce Beverly Baxter, III and Frank William Carr, Jr.; sister, Rachael Vaughan; and brothers, James R. Dougherty, Jr. an ...

Daryl F. Gates, L.A.P.D. Chief in Rodney King Era, Dies at 83

Mr. Gates’s aggressive approach in a period of intense urban turmoil was admired for its innovation and criticized for the racial unrest it provoked.