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Coretta Scott King

Biography

Coretta Scott King

Coretta Scott King was an American civil rights activist, international human rights champion, author, the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. and the mother of four. Born in 1927 in Heiberger, Alabama, she died in 2006 in Rosarito Beach, Mexico.

Coretta Scott King

Books by Coretta Scott King

by Coretta Scott King, with the Reverend Dr. Barbara Reynolds - Memoir, Nonfiction

As a widow and single mother of four, Coretta Scott King worked tirelessly to found and develop The King Center as a citadel for world peace, lobbied for 15 years for the US national holiday in honor of her husband, championed for women's, workers’ and gay rights, and was a powerful international voice for nonviolence, freedom and human dignity. Coretta’s is a love story, a family saga, and the memoir of an extraordinary black woman in 20th-century America, a brave leader who, in the face of terrorism and violent hatred, stood committed, proud, forgiving, nonviolent and hopeful every day of her life.