Coretta Scott King

She was the founding president of the Martin Luther King Jr center. A center for Nonviolent social change in Atlanta Georgia; and after her husbands death side emerged as a African American leader of national stature. The amazing woman was Coretta Scott King. Born on April 27, 1927 in Manion Alabama Coretta enjoyed a childhood on a farm with her parents. And her as parent successful truck farming business so did tension from her white neighbors.

Her family believed that jealously from the whites may have been responsible for a 1942 fire that destroyed the Scott family's home. Coretta parents wanted a better childhood for her and two other siblings and enforcing within them a strong love for Black institution with an integrated faculty.

Enrolling in 1951 at Boston's New England Conservatory of Music with a grant from the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, Scott developed her singing talent and eventually earned a Mus.B. in voice. While there, she also began dating Martin Luther King, Jr., a doctoral candidate at Boston University's School of Theology. Despite the initial objections of King's parents, who wanted him to marry a woman from his hometown of Atlanta, the two were married at the Scott family home near Marion on June 18, 195 3.

During the period of her husband's public career, Coretta King usually remained out of the public spotlight, raising the couple's four children: Yolanda Denise, Martin Luther III, Dexter Scott, and Bernice Albertine. While her primary focus was on raising children, in 1962 she served as a voice instructor in the music department of Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia.

Coretta King also worked closely with her husband and was present at many of the major civil rights events of the 1950s and 1960s. In 1962, she showed interest in disarmament efforts by serving as a Women Strike for Peace delegate to