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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.
And I quote, "Ten Commandments on Vietnam"; 1. Thou shalt not believe in a military victory. 2. Thou shall not believe in a political victory. 3. Thou shall not believe that they, the Vietnamese love us. 4. Thou shall not believe that the Saigon government has the support of the people.
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 ...
Apr 8, 2018 · Coretta Scott King, center, accompanied by the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, her children, and singer Harry Belafonte, leads a march in Memphis to honor her husband who was assassinated four days earlier.
Feb 22, 2023 · As a Black woman of faith, she envisioned, advocated for, and enacted values of justice and equality for most of her life. Coretta Scott was born in Heiberger, Alabama, the second of three children to Obadiah and Bernice Scott. Her faith was formed in the AME Zion tradition of the Black church, and it was there that young Coretta’s love for ...
Feb 23, 2008 · Coretta King was also involved in the anti-apartheid campaign of the 1980s. By the late 1990s she became an activist for HIV/AIDS prevention and a supporter of lesbian and gay rights. Coretta Scott King suffered a stroke and heart attack in 2005. Never fully recovering, she passed away on January 20, 2006 at a rehabilitation center in Mexico.
