On the night of Sept. 16, 1968, Carol Jenkins, a 21-year-old black woman, was murdered in Martinsville.

Carol Jenkins - Fishing in the Devonian (Puncher and Wattman)

"The recognition and appreciation of Althea is long overdue," said Carol Jenkins, whose production company is handling the project with the Gibson foundation.

Carol, Jenkins; Elizabeth Gardner Hines (December 2003).

One speaker, Carol Jenkins, said she frequently takes her children to WNBC-TV, where she is a newscaster.

Anna Murdoch, an author, and Carol Jenkins, the WNBC news anchor, are among those to be honored.

The man, Kenneth C. Richmond, is accused of stabbing the woman, Carol Jenkins, with a screwdriver on a roadside, while his 7-year-old daughter watched.

Carol Jenkins, the Channel 4 newscaster, will present awards to three single parents.

"I've also lived with the fear that I could have known the person who so brutally killed Carol Jenkins," she wrote in the letter, which has not been published.

The mayor had made a point of saying that, more than anything, he was happy for Carol Jenkins's family, which, had suffered for so long.