coretta scott king

     

After her husband's death in 1968, she founded a center in Atlanta, Georgia for nonviolent social change

Trivia about coretta scott king

  • An award for African-American authors & illustrators is named for this wife of Martin Luther King Jr.
  • In 1968 she called upon American women to unite & fight the evils of racism, poverty & war
  • On her death in 2006, she became the first woman to lie in state at the Capitol in Atlanta
  • Mom to Yolanda, born in Montgomery in 1955, & 3 others: CSK