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Apr 27, 2012 · Coretta Scott King is remembered as the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a role she cherished. But she was much more than just a wife and widow. In her honor, we present 20 facts you may not ...
Jan 10, 2024 · Jan. 10, 2024, 10:33 AM PST. By Char Adams. The Rev. Bernice King, daughter of Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr., wants the world to know her mother was not a prop. King, the couple ...
Jan 11, 2017 · By Coretta Scott King, as told to Barbara Reynolds. Illustrated. 356 pp. Henry Holt & Company. $30. Nearly every image of Coretta Scott King since her husband’s death has seemed suffused with ...
Jan 31, 2006 · Coretta Scott King died Monday night, in bed at a holistic health center in Mexico, just south of San Diego. She was 78 years old. King took up the torch of human rights, founded the King Center ...
Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader. She was the widow of Martin Luther King, Jr.. Scott King helped lead the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Scott King played an important role in the years after her husband's 1968 assassination when she took on the leadership ...
May 14, 2018 · Coretta Scott King. 1927–2006. Civil rights activist, writer, singer. On April 8, 1968, four days after her husband, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was brutally gunned down by assassin James Earl Ray on the balcony of a Memphis motel, Coretta Scott King flew to that city to take her husband's place at the head of the march for nonviolent social change.
Coretta Scott King Book Awards. Designed to commemorate the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards annually recognize outstanding books for young adults and children by African American authors and ...
