A brief biography of the wife of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., who shared his dedication to working peaceably to achieve equality for all Americans.
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.
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 ...
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...
A biography of Coretta Scott King, discussing her childhood, family, marriage to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and her lifelong fight for 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
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.
"Coretta Scott King is known for being the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but she was a civil rights activist and leader in her own right!
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.