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Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who was the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1953 until his assassination in 1968.
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culture · American civil rights leader (1927–2006) · writer · activist · politician · gospel singer · also Coretta Scott King, Coretta King, Coretta Scott, King
Born 27 April 1927 · Died 30 January 2006 · Q230969
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2026· 7 entries
“complete a group of memorials in the nation”
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“It was as though heaven had come down.”
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Complex: Coretta Scott King Investigates MLK’s Murder in ‘King vs. The United States of America’
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Yahoo: Coretta Scott King’s Search Into Truth Of MLK Death In Works From Byron Allen & Ava DuVernay
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Fox Sports: Coretta Scott King Classic Returns to Prudential Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Day with Marquee Women’s College Basketball Matchups
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Yahoo! Sports: How to watch Coretta Scott King Classic: Ohio State-TCU, Vanderbilt-Michigan clash
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2025· 1 entry
Yahoo: Learn About Civil Rights Activist Coretta Scott King, Including How She Met Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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2024· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “A color photo authentically depicts Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King in 1956.” Mixture.
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2023· 2 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “Civil rights activist Coretta Scott King babysat actor John Lithgow when he was a child.” True.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “In 1967, Julia Roberts’ parents couldn’t afford the hospital bill for her birth so Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King covered it.” True.
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2017· 3 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “A video shows Coretta Scott King thanking Jeff Sessions during her remarks at the dedication of the Rosa Parks Library.” Mostly False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Coretta Scott King wrote a letter opposing Jeff Session's confirmation for appointment as a federal judge.” True.
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“It is in her memory and her honor that we must carry this program on. This is as she would have it.”
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (2011).
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Alabama Women's Hall of Fame (2008).
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2006· 13 entries
Houston Chronicle: Coretta Scott King: The nation still has need of leaders with her strength, courage and dignity.
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Died 2006-01-30.
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“The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.”
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“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”
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“I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes — the finer things of life — would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.”
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“Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize the next minority group.”
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“Our Congress passes laws that subsidize corporations, farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia, but when they turn their attention to the poor they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget and cut back on funds for Head Start.”
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“We must all begin to question the experts. They have not really been right. No abundance of material goods can compensate for the death of individuality and personal creativity.”
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“I'm more determined than ever that my husband's dream will become a reality.”
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“Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.”
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“I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.”
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“If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.”
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“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.”
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Gandhi Peace Prize (2004).
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During a university lecture at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, she affirmed her support for same-sex marriage
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2003· 1 entry
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
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2000· 2 entries
Repeated similar remarks at the opening plenary session of the 13th annual Creating Change Conference, organized by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
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King visited her husband's grave with her sons, daughter Bernice and sister-in-law
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1999· 1 entry
The King family finally succeeded in getting a jury verdict saying her husband was the victim of a murder conspiracy after suing Loyd Jowers, who claimed six years prior to having paid someone other than James Earl Ray t
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1998· 3 entries
At the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, King called on the civil rights community to join in the struggle against homophobia and anti-gay bias
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At the 25th anniversary luncheon for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, King said: "I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people, and I should stick to the iss
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“I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people, and I should stick to the issue of racial justice. ... But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King, Jr., said,”
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1997· 1 entry
Betty Shabazz suffered extensive and life-threatening burns after her grandson Malcolm Shabazz started a fire in their home
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1996· 1 entry
King delivered a 40-minute speech at the Loyola University's Lake Shore campus in Rogers Park
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1994· 3 entries
The day marking the 65th birthday of her husband, King said: "No injustice, no matter how great, can excuse even a single act of violence against another human being
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“No injustice, no matter how great, can excuse even a single act of violence against another human being.”
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King was given more time to write, address issues and spend time with her parents
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1993· 4 entries
A court rejected her claims to the papers after finding that a July 16, 1964, letter from Martin Luther King to the institute had constituted a binding charitable pledge to the university and outright stating that Martin
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King went to the FBI Headquarters and gave an approving address on Director William S
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King showed disdain for the U
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During a press conference, she asked President Clinton to end discrimination prohibiting gays and lesbians from serving in the military
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1989· 1 entry
King lectured hundreds of students about the civil rights movement at the University of San Diego
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded Candace Award (1987).
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Eight civil rights activists were jailed for protesting the exclusion of African Americans during the filming of The Oprah Winfrey Show in Cumming, Georgia
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1986· 1 entry
When Martin Luther King Jr
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1985· 1 entry
King was arrested with her daughter Bernice and son Martin Luther King III while taking part in an anti-apartheid protest at the Embassy of South Africa in Washington, D
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded honorary degree from Spelman College (1984).
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Came under criticism by Hosea Williams, one of her husband's earliest followers, for having used the King Center to promote "authentic material" on her husband's dreams and ideals, and disqualified the merchandise as
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1983· 2 entries
King resented endorsing Jesse Jackson for president, since she wanted to back up someone she believed could beat Ronald Reagan, and dismissed her husband becoming a presidential candidate had he lived
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Awarded Four Freedoms Award – Freedom of Worship in New York City (1983).
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded Eugene V. Debs Award (1982).
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1980· 1 entry
King's signing as a commentator for CNN was announced by Ted Turner
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1979· 1 entry
King visited the Lyndon B
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1978· 1 entry
King held a press conference in defense of then-Ambassador Andrew Young and his controversial statement on political prisoners in American jails
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1973· 1 entry
As a very close friend of the former president
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1972· 1 entry
Said that there should be at least one national holiday a year in tribute to an African-American man, "and, at this point, Martin is the best candidate we have
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Viareggio-Versilia International Prize (1971).
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1969· 2 entries
King was the lead speaker at the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam demonstration in Washington, D
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Awarded Wateler Peace Prize (1969).
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1968· 11 entries
While King was attending the late senator's funeral, the Justice Department made the announcement of James Earl Ray's arrest
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Bobby Kennedy was shot after winning the California primary for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States
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King spoke at an anti-war demonstration in Central Park in place of her husband
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King and her children headed a march with sanitation workers that her husband had planned to carry out before his death
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Former Vice President Richard Nixon visited King and recalled his first meeting with her husband in 1955
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King arrived in Memphis to retrieve her husband's body and decided that the casket should be kept open during the funeral with the hope that her children would realize upon seeing his body that he would not be coming hom
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By Coretta Scott King, The King Center is the official memorial dedicated to the advancement of the legacy and ideas of Martin Luther King Jr
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When she took on the leadership of the struggle for racial equality herself and became active in the Women's Movement
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“Harvard class day address (1968); published in the July 1, 1968, issue of Harvard Alumni Bulletin”
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Coretta attended a commemorative service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta to mark his birthday on January 15
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“s offer by Southern Christian Leadership Conference members, who told her about his presidential ambitions. She ignored the warnings and went along with his request. On April 5, 1968, King arrived in Memphis to retrieve her husband”
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1965· 1 entry
King's father joined her and her husband for a march that would later end in Montgomery
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1964· 2 entries
The Time profile of Martin, when he was chosen as Time's "Man of the Year", referred to her as "a talented young soprano"
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That his papers would be kept at the college
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1963· 2 entries
King tried to make direct contact with President Kennedy at the advisement of Wyatt Tee Walker and succeeded in speaking with Robert F
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Where King gave birth to their fourth child Bernice
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1958· 2 entries
King accompanied her husband and Ralph Abernathy to a courtroom
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King made her first appearance at a concert that year at Peter High School Auditorium in Birmingham, Alabama
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1957· 1 entry
King was one of the founders of The Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (now called Peace Action), and she spoke in San Francisco while her husband spoke in New York at the major anti-Vietnam war march on April 15, 1967,
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1956· 2 entries
Martin Luther King said he would return to Montgomery after picking up Coretta and their daughter from Atlanta, who were staying with his parents
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Coretta and Dexter congregation member Roscoe Williams' wife Mary Lucy heard the "sound of a brick striking the concrete floor of the front porch
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1955· 1 entry
And was named Yolanda at Coretta's insistence
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1954· 1 entry
Martin became the full-time pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
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1953· 1 entry
On the lawn of her mother's house; the ceremony was performed by Martin Sr
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1945· 1 entry
Where she played trumpet and piano, sang in the chorus, and participated in school musicals and enrolled at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio during her senior year at Lincoln
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1927· 1 entry
Born 1927-04-27.
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