Coretta Scott King

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Coretta Scott King
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Corettas Life

• King, Coretta Scott, 19272006, American
  civil-rights leader, b. Heiberger, Ala. She is
  the widow of Martin Luther King, Jr. After his
  assassination, she carried on his civil-rights
  work. In the late 1990s she and other family
  members supported the unsuccessful efforts of
  James Earl Ray, the convicted assassion of her
  husband, to win a new trial, believing that
  Martin Luther King was the victim of a conspiracy
  that may have included members of the U.S.
  government. In 1999 she and her family brought
  and won a wrongful death suit against Loyd
  Jowers, who claimed to have arranged King's
  assassination for a Mafia figure. Many experts,
  however, were not convinced by the evidence
  presented during the trial. She wrote My Life
  with Martin Luther King, Jr. (1969).

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Coretta's Relationship With Martin Luther King JR.

• Marriages in the spotlight often have to deal
  with lack of privacy, long periods of separation,
  gender issues, and temptation. The marriage of
  Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King
  was no different.

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Facts About Coretta

• Born and raised in Marion, Ala. Graduated
  valedictorian from Lincoln High School. She
  received a BA in music and education from Antioch
  College in Yellow Springs, Ohio Went on to
  study concert singing at Boston's New England
  Conservatory of Music, where she earned a degree
  in voice and violin.After Dr. King's
  Assassination Since her husband's
  assassination in 1968, Mrs. King has devoted much
  of her energy and attention to developing
  programs 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.

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Coretta

• Coretta Scott was born on April 27, 1927, in
  Perry County, Alabama, into a family that had
  owned land since the Civil War. Her parents,
  Obadiah and Bernice Scott, were truck farmers.
  Even though the Scotts were better off
  financially than most Blacks in the area, life
  for them and their three children was difficult.
  Scott, along with her mother and sister, tended
  the family garden and crops, fed the chickens and
  hogs, and milked the cows. She helped supplement
  the family income by hiring out to hoe and pick
  cotton.

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Corettas House
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Corettas Family
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Corettas Husband
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Corettas Casket
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Corettas Mother