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.
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.
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 ...
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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 the life and career of Coretta Scott King and her work for equal rights for African-Americans.
"This is the story of Martin and Coretta King- their courtship and marriage, their life together,their children.
Praise for She Persisted: Coretta Scott King: "This book profiles the uplifting voice of an activist worth recognizing in her own right [and] Lyons manages to weave in a healthy amount of emotion into this account . . .
Recounts the life of Coretta Scott King, beginning with an upbringing that stressed education, her talent as a musician, and her activism alongside her husband and on her own.
Profiles the wife of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., who shared his dedication to working peaceably to achieve equality for all Americans.
This extraordinary union of poetic text by Ntozake Shange and monumental artwork by Kadir Nelson captures the movement for civil rights in the United States and honors its most elegant inspiration, Coretta Scott.