[26], Despite envisioning a career for herself in the music industry, Coretta knew that it would not be possible if she were to marry Martin Luther King. "[129] Although King would object to the term "pacifism"; she was an advocate of non-violent direct action to achieve social change. In 2003, she invited the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force to take part in observances of the 40th anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech. [21], King's body was returned to Atlanta and carried through the streets on a horse-drawn carriage to the Georgia State Capitol as the crowd threw roses at the casket and a lone bagpiper played "Amazing Grace"; King became the first woman and black person to lie in state at the Georgia State Capitol. Coretta refused the proclamation and insisted on staying with her husband. The board denied her request to perform her second year of required practice teaching at Yellow Springs public schools, for her teaching certificate King appealed to the Antioch College administration, which was unwilling or unable to change the situation in the local school system and instead employed her at the college's associated laboratory school for a second year. [9], Coretta Scott King's temporary gravesite, Atlanta, Georgia. Her husband's activities had been monitored during his lifetime. [160][161] King's body was flown from Mexico to Atlanta on February 1, 2006.[162]. She played trumpet and piano, and graduated as valedictorian from Lincoln High at the top of her class in 1945 and followed her older sister to Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where Edythe had been the first full-time black student to live on campus. King was the recipient of various honors and tributes both before and after her death.

You don't even know me." Once the two obtained Edythe's number from Coretta, they sat down with her and had lunch with her. "[79], On April 8, 1968, King and her children headed a march with sanitation workers that her husband had planned to carry out before his death. After graduating from Lincoln, Scott won a partial scholarship to Antioch College, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, the same university her sister Edythe had attended as the first African American student. ", National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy, "Coretta Scott King honored at church where husband preached", "Coretta Scott King: My Childhood as a Tomboy / Growing into a Lady", "Upfront / What I Know Now: John Lithgow", "King Commission, AKA sorority pay tribute to Coretta Scott King", "Coretta Scott King Biography and Interview", "Moving out of the dreamer's shadow: A King daughter's long journey", "Coretta King Expected to Take Active Role in Crusade", "Widow Hopes For Fulfillment of King's Dream", "When widowhood speaks to black civil rights: Coretta Scott King", "Accused Slayer of Dr. Martin Luther King Arrested", "Nixon papers reveal Elvis's rip of Beatles", "FBI spied on Coretta Scott King, files show", "FBI Files Reveal Government Spied on Coretta Scott King", "Coretta Scott Still Working To Have Husband's Birthday Declared Holiday", "Coretta Scott King satisfied with Reagan's apology", "Coretta King outraged at jailing of 'Winfrey Show' protestors", "Coretta Scott King Sidesteps Controversy on Convention Center", "Coretta Scott King Outraged About Strike", "Coretta King, at FBI Headquarters, Backs Sessions, Assails Hoover", "Coretta Scott King Praises Sessions, Fbi", "Opposition to Violence, Assault Weapons Are Focus of King Day", "Coretta King: Charges Aim To Smear Malcolm X", "Shabazz Fund Drive Gets Levin, King Donations", "King's widow victim of multiple burglaries", "King family gets jury verdict on conspiracy", "Rev. An activist in her own right, Coretta King made numerous contributions to the struggle for social justice and human rights throughout her life. Edythe insisted that her sister was an excellent choice for Martin Luther King Jr., but also felt that Coretta did not need to bargain for a husband. King's parents arrived from Alabama. She was 78 years old. A program of Georgia Humanities in partnership with the University of Georgia Press, the University System of Georgia/GALILEO, and the Office of the Governor. Yolanda was their first grandchild. Cora died before Coretta's birth. She will lie in state again Monday February 6, 2006 at historic Ebenezer Baptist Church from 10 a.m. until midnight. Coretta suffered a heart attack and stroke in August 2005. Mrs. King recalled: "After we married, we moved to Montgomery, Alabama, where my husband had accepted an invitation to be the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. [83] With the end of the funeral service, King led her children and mourners in a march from the church to Morehouse College, her late husband's alma mater.[84]. Along with his wife, he ran a clothing shop far from their home and later opened a general store. In 2006, the Jewish National Fund, the organization that works to plant trees in Israel, announced the creation of the Coretta Scott King forest in the Galilee region of Northern Israel, with the purpose of "perpetuating her memory of equality and peace", as well as the work of her husband. She fought for years to make it a national holiday. Coretta said of her first college: Antioch had envisioned itself as a laboratory in democracy but had no black students. In 1986, she traveled to South Africa and met with Winnie Mandela, while Mandela's husband Nelson Mandela was still a political prisoner on Robben Island. Coretta Scott King, along with Rosalynn Carter, Andrew Young, Jimmy Carter, and other civil rights leaders during a visit to Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, January 14, 1979. (see [2]). The bus was driven by Bernice Scott, who bussed all the local black teenagers to the Marion high school, as it was the closest black high school.[1].

On January 31, 2006 following a moment of silence in memoriam to the death of King, the United States House of Representatives presented House Resolution 655 in honor of King's legacy. The concert was important for Coretta as a way to continue her professional career and participate in the movement.

She maintained it was up to the "people within the community" and that people had tried to get her involved in with "those kind of local situations."[110]. Lowery, referencing King's vocal opposition to the Iraq war, noted the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Baker declined after thinking it over, stating that her twelve adopted children (known as the "rainbow tribe") were "...too young to lose their mother". The King Center, which she created the year of his assassination, allowed her husband's tomb to be memorialized. "[114] In January 1995, Qubilah Shabazz was indicted on charges of using telephones and crossing state lines in a plot to kill Louis Farrakhan. "[34], The Kings welcomed their first child Yolanda on November 17, 1955, who was named at Coretta's insistence and became the church's attention. The shooter was identified by James Earl Ray's lawyers as Earl Clark, a police officer at the time of King's death, who had been dead for several years before the trial and lawsuits emerged. "[66] King played the tape in her presence, along with Andrew Young, Ralph Abernathy and Joseph Lowery. She brought up his ideals and the fact that he may be dead, but concluded that "his spirit will never die. Coretta remained active through her demonstrations against apartheid in South Africa, and by expressing her views as a syndicated columnist and contributor to CNN. He also owned a lumber mill, which was burned down by white neighbors. "[109] On March 8, 1989, King lectured hundreds of students about the civil rights movement at the University of San Diego.

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