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         Coretta Scott King

  Born Coretta Scott, April 27, 1927 on a family-owned farm in Heiberger, Alabama, life was often difficult. During the Great Depression to help her family out, she and her siblings would pick cotton. Graduation, at the top of her class in 1945, from Lincoln Normal School, in Marion, Alabama was followed by Scott's entrance into Antioch College of Yellow Springs, Ohio. Upon graduation she moved to Boston Massachusetts where she eventually met her future husband, Martin Luther King Jr. The Kings wed June 18, 1953 on Coretta's parents' lawn in a ceremony performed by the Senior Reverend King. Shortly after she attained her degree in voice and violin from New England Conservatory, the family moved to Montgomery, Alabama where he in time was named Pastor of the Dextor Avenue Baptist Church. In addition to her degrees from Antioch and NEC, Scott King would earn honorary degrees from several other colleges including Princeton and Bates. Coretta Scott King was also a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Inc. sorority.

As MLK's star rose in the Civil Rights Movement (set off by Rosa Parks' arrest on a Montgomery bus), the eldest daughter of the couple was born. Mere months later on January 30, 1956, Scott King and the baby survived a bomb explosion at the family's residence, while Dr King was speaking at Rev. Ralph Abernathy's First Baptist Church.

Later, Mrs. Scott King would organize a series of Freedom Concerts, to both highlight the movement and raise funds for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. 1962 found her as a Women's Strike for Peace delegate to the 17-nation Disarmament Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

Following the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr., Ms. King began attending services at Ebenezer Baptist Church, commemorating her husband's birth every January 15th. It was only after a struggle of over 15 years that his Born Day became recognized as a Federal Holliday in 1986.

Througout the 80's Scott King's participation in a series of sit-in demonstrations, protesting South Afrikan racial policies, reaffirmed her long-standing opposition to aparthied. In 1986 Ms. King flew to South Afrika to meet the wife of another freedom figther.  That was the year she met with Winnie Mandela, whose husband Nelson was still a political prisoner on Robbin Island. Coretta Scott King also voiced opposition to capital punishment, and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. She was an advocate of women's rights, lesbian/gay rights, and AIDS/HIV prevention.

The American Literary Association also named an award for her.  The prize is given to African American writers and illustrators for exceptional educational contribution to children's literature.


Coretta Scott King died January 30, 2006 at a rehabilitation center in Rosarito Beach, Mexico while undergoing holistic therapy for a stroke suffered in August of 2005.

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