Coretta Scott King (1927–2006,) née Scott, was an American singer, civil rights campaigner, and writer. The wife of civil-rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., she took on an independent role in the civil rights movement in the years following her husband’s assassination in 1968.
Born in Marion, Alabama, and trained in music at the New England Conservatory, Coretta Scott King made her concert début in 1948. She married Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1953. Two years later, the Montgomery (Alabama) bus strike led the couple into the struggle for civil rights for black Americans.
After her husband’s assassination in 1968, Coretta continued her husband’s legacy of non-violent resistance by fighting successfully for a national holiday in his honor. She also established the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change.
King’s memoirs are My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. (1969.)
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I’m fulfilled in what I do… I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes—the finer things of life—would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
—Coretta Scott King
Topics: Happiness
There is a spirit and a need and a man at
the beginning of every great human advance.
Each of these must be right for that particular
moment in history, or nothing happens.
—Coretta Scott King
Topics: Character
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