Coretta Scott King
Human rights activist, Author
1927 – 2006
Who was Coretta Scott King?
Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader. The widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King helped lead the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. King often participated in many of her husband's exploits and goals during the battle for African-American equality. King met the future civil rights leader while in college and the two quickly escalated to the center of the movement.
Mrs. King played a prominent role in the years after her husband's 1968 assassination when she took on the leadership of the struggle for racial equality herself and became active in the Women's Movement and the LGBT rights movement. King founded the King Center and sought to make his birthday a national holiday. King went through several procedures and was put down many times, before, in the mid-1980s, she finally succeeded with Ronald Reagan's signing of the legislation legalizing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. She expanded her views to include opposition to apartheid and tried to establish homosexual rights as being part of her husband's wishes.
King became friends with many politicians before and after her husband's death, most notably John F.
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- Born
- Apr 27, 1927
Heiberger - Also known as
- Coretta King
- Coretta Scott
- Coretta Scott Smith James
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1953/06/18 - 1968/04/04)
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Children
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Antioch College
- Dillard University
- Lincoln Normal School
- New England Conservatory of Music
- Died
- Jan 30, 2006
Rosarito Beach
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on July 23, 2013
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