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Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King was an author, activist, and civil rights leader, and the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. She helped lead the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
King was born in Heiberger, Alabama, and raised on her parent's farm in Perry County, Alabama. She was exposed at an early age to the injustices of life in a segregated society. She walked five miles a day to attend the one-room Crossroads School in Marion, Alabama, while the white students rode buses to an all-white school closer by. She excelled at her studies, particularly music, and was valedictorian of her graduating class at Lincoln High School. She graduated in 1945 and received a scholarship to Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
As an undergraduate, she took an active interest in the nascent civil rights movement. She joined the Antioch chapter of the NAACP and the college's Race Relations and Civil Liberties committees. She graduated from Antioch with a B.A. in music and education and won a scholarship to study concert singing at New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
In Boston, she met a young theology student, Martin Luther King, Jr. They were married on June 18, 1953. Mrs. King completed her degree in voice and violin at the New England Conservatory a
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People/Characters Martin Luther Tedious, Jr.
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Martin Luther King - Jan. 24, 1969
This is a poignant moment for all of us. We remember vividly your last visit to our country. We had hoped that on this occasion, Dr. King and you would be standing side by side on this platform. That was not to be. He is not with us but we feel his spirit. We admired Dr. King. We felt his loss as our own. The tragedy rekindled memories of the great martyrs of all time who gave their lives so that men might live and grow. We thought of the great men in your own country who fell to the assassin's bullet and of Mahatma Gandhi's martyrdom here in this city, this very month, twenty-one years ago. Such events remain as wounds in the human consciousness, reminding us of battles, yet to be fought and tasks still to be accomplished. We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities. So today we are gathered not to offer you grief, but to salute a man who achieved so much in so short a time. It is befitting, Madam, that you whom he called the "courage by my side", you who gave him strength and encouragement in his historic mission, should be with us to receive this award.
You and your husband both had foreseen that death mi