Coretta Scott King, African-American activist and author (died 2006)

Coretta Scott King

American civil rights leader; wife of Martin Luther King Jr. (1927–2006)

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. As an advocate for African-American equality, she was a leader for the civil rights movement in the 1960s. King was…