"From her childhood encounters with discrimination to her activism as an adult, Coretta Scott King dreamed of finding a place where people were treated equally. This ... biography tells the story of how she came to stand up against prejudice and violence during the African American civil rights movement"--Page 4 of cover.
Wallace “Mad Bear” Anderson spoke for a poor Iroquois confederation from upstate New York; and Peggy Terry, reportedly raised ... As I attempted to rest in the wake of my surgery, Martin decided that he, too, would take a short break.
Since then the nation and the world have seen the beauty and composure of Coretta Scott King as she assumed her role in the tumult of the Civil Rights Movement, stepped forth boldly and bravely when Dr. King was assassinated, and then set ...
The wife of Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King was a civil rights leader in her own right, playing a prominent role in the African American struggle for racial equality in the 1960s.
Coretta Scott King is well known for being the wifeÊof Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and for her own civil rights and world peace activism.
A biography of Coretta Scott King, discussing her childhood, family, marriage to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and her lifelong fight for civil rights.
Coretta Scott was committed to social justice long before she met and married Martin Luther King, Jr. She shared in all the dangers that King's prominence in the civil rights...
I used to go out in the woods and sit for hours, thinking and meditating. ... Of course, while my memoir is about me, it is about Martin, too. ... Yet, I did have a life after Martin, just as I had a life before Martin.
"Biography of the wife of assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr."--Source other than the Library of Congress
Question: Who was known as the First Lady of the U.S. civil rights movement? Answer: Coretta Scott King. She helped her husband, Martin Luther King Jr., fight for equal rights for African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s.
Celebrate the life of the extraordinary civil and human rights activist Coretta Scott King with this picture book adaptation of her critically acclaimed adult memoir.