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  1. Coretta Scott King and husband civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on platform at end of 1965 Selma to Montgomery, Alabama Civil Rights... Coretta Scott King arrives at the Hero Awards April 21, 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia.

  2. Browse 1,952 coretta scott king pictures photos and images available, ... Coretta Scott King Joining Hands and Singing with Protesters.

  3. Alveda King (niece) Awards. Gandhi Peace Prize. Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader and the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1953 until his death. As an advocate for African-American equality, she was a leader for the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

    • Studying Music at New England Conservatory
    • Coretta Scott King’s ‘Freedom Concerts’
    • Civil Rights Campaigning

    In her last two years of high school, Scott threw herself into music. She became the leading soprano for the school’s senior chorus, played trumpet and piano, sang in the chorus, performed in school musicals – and found time to direct a choir at her home church. She later got a scholarship to New England Conservatory, where she met her future husba...

    So, King found a way to introduce music to her and her husband’s cause. “I developed the ‘Freedom Concert’ concept, where I narrated the story of the civil rights movement that we were involved in and sang freedom songs in between the narrations that told the story of our struggle from Montgomery to Washington at that time,” she says. “In 1964, I d...

    After her husband’s assassination in 1968, King took on the leadership of the civil rights movement herself and became active in the Women’s Movement, as well as advocating for LGBTQ+rights and opposition to apartheid. She founded the King Center, an organisation for non-violent social change in her husband’s name, and succeeded in making Martin Lu...

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  4. Activist and widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King is interviewed in her office at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center on May 10, 1979... Civil Rights leader Coretta Scott King, 1966. Coretta Scott King

  5. Jan 17, 2023 · Coretta Scott King was a trailblazer in her own right before she even met her husband, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The talented soprano earned two music degrees, one from the prestigious New England Conservatory in Boston, and sustained an active concert career in the 50s and early 60s. Though she eventually gave up her singing career to support her husband and the cause, her musical ...

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  7. Jan 15, 2018 · Coretta Scott King described her early music education in a segregated Alabama in an interview with the National Visionary Leadership Project. She said she inherited her musical talents from her mother, who sang in church because “there was no place else to sing for her when I was growing up.”. Later, King sang solos in church herself, as ...

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