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BLACK HISTORY MONTH and the American Experience
Mrs. King’s life committed to justice, peace
Entered world
stage in 1955
Coretta Scott King was one
of the most influential women
leaders in our world today. Pre­
pared by her family, education,
and personality for a life com­
mitted to social justice and peace,
she entered the world stage in
1955 as wife of the Reverend
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and
as a leading participant in the
American Civil Rights Move­
ment.
Her remarkable partnership
with Dr. King resulted not only
in four talented children, but in a
life devoted to the highest val­
ues of human dignity in service
to social change.
M rs. King has trav eled
throughout our nation and world
speaking out on behalf of racial
and economic justice, women’s
and children's rights, gay and
lesbian dignity, religious free­
dom, the needs of the poor and
hom eless, full-em ploym ent,
health care, educational oppor­
tunities, nuclear disarmament
and ecological sanity.
In her distinguished and pro­
ductive career, she has lent her
support to democracy move­
ments world-wide and served
as a consultant to many world
leaders, including Corazon
Aquino, Kenneth Kaunda, and
Nelson Mandela.
Born and raised in Marion,
Ala. Coretta Scott graduated
valedictorian from Lincoln High
School. She received a B.A. in
m usic and education from
Antioch College in Yellow
Springs, Ohio, and then went on
to study concert singing at
Boston’s New England Con­
servatory of Music, where she
Coretta Scott King was one of the m ost influential women leaders in the world when she died
Jan. 30 at the age of 78.
earned a degree in voice and
violin.
While in Boston she met
Martin Luther King Jr. who was
then studying for his doctorate
in systematic theology at Bos­
ton University. They were mar­
ried on June 18, 1953, and in
September 1954 took up resi­
dence in Montgomery, Ala., with
Coretta Scott King assuming
the many functions of pastor’s
wife at Dexter Avenue Baptist
Church.
During Dr. King’s career,
Mrs. King devoted most of
her time to raising their four
c h ild re n : Y o landa D enise
(1955), M artin L uther, III
(1957), Dexter Scott (1961),
and Bernice Albertine (1963).
From the earliest days, how ­
ever, she balanced mothering
and movement work, speak­
Family grace with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta, Martin III
ing before church, civic, col- and Yolanda.
Coretta Scott King at a recital with pianist Russell Goode. Mrs.
King was trained as a classical singer at Boston's Northwest
Conservatory of Music.
lege, fra te rn a l and peace
groups.
She co n ceiv ed and p er­
formed a series of favorably-
reviewed Freedom Concerts
which com bined prose and
poetry narration with musical
selections and functioned as
fundraisers for the Southern
Christian Leadership Confer­
ence, the direct action organi­
zation o f w hich Dr. King
served as first president.
In 1957, she and Dr. King
journeyed to Ghana to mark
that country’s independence.
In 1958, they spent a belated
honeymoon in M exico, where
they observed first-hand the
im m ense gulf betw een ex ­
trem e w ealth and extrem e
poverty. In 1959, Dr. and Mrs.
King spent nearly a month in
India on a pilgrim age to dis­
ciples and sites associated
with Mahatma Gandhi.
In 1964, she accom panied
him to Oslo, Norway, where
he received the Nobel Peace
P riz e . Even p rio r to h er
husband’s public stand against
the Vietnam War in 1967, Mrs.
King functioned as liaison to
peace and justice organiza­
tions, and as mediator to pub­
lic officials on behalf of the
unheard.
Since her husband's assassi­
nation in 1968, Mrs. King has
devoted much of her energy
and attention to developing pro­
grams and building the Atlanta-
based Martin Luther King, Jr.
Center for Nonviolent Social
Change as a living memorial to
her husband’s life and dream.
Situated in the Freedom Hall
complex encircling Dr. King's
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