- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Coretta Scott King (1927-2006)
- Creator:
- McCarty, Laura
- Date of Original:
- 2006-11-03
- Subject:
- African American singers--Georgia
Singers--Georgia
African American women singers--Georgia
Women singers--Georgia
African American musicians--Georgia
Musicians--Georgia
African American women musicians--Georgia
Women musicians--Georgia
African American civil rights workers
Civil rights workers
African American women civil rights workers
Women civil rights workers
African American civic leaders
Civic leaders
African American women civic leaders
Women civic leaders
African American social reformers
Social reformers
African American women social reformers
Women social reformers
African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights--United States
Civil rights--Georgia
Civil rights--Alabama
Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights movements--Georgia
Civil rights movements--Alabama
Civil rights demonstrations--United States
Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama
Protest marches--Alabama
Protest marches--Washington (D.C.)
Education--Alabama--Marion
Education--Ohio--Yellow Springs
Women--Education--Alabama--Marion
Women--Education--Ohio--Yellow Springs
Women--Education--Massachusetts--Boston
African American women--Education--Alabama--Marion
African American women--Education--Ohio--Yellow Springs
African American women--Education--Massachusetts--Boston
Universities and colleges--Graduate work
New England Conservatory of Music--Graduate work
African Americans--Education--Alabama
African Americans--Education--Ohio
African Americans--Education (Graduate)--Massachusetts--Boston
Music--Study and teaching (Graduate)
Concerts--United States
Fund raising--United States
Montgomery Improvement Association
Boycotts--Alabama--Montgomery
Buses--Alabama--Montgomery
Bombings--Alabama--Montgomery
Dynamite--Alabama--Montgomery
Mass meetings--Alabama--Montgomery
Segregation--Alabama--Montgomery
Segregation in transportation--Alabama--Montgomery
Discrimination--Alabama--Montgomery
Race discrimination--Alabama--Montgomery
Race relations
Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relation--History--20th century
Montgomery (Ala.)--Politics and government--20th century
Holidays--United States
Holidays--Georgia
Nonviolence--United States
Passive resistance--United States
Women Strike for Peace
Nobel Prizes
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Civil disobedience
Disarmament
Peace
Peace--Awards
Assassination--Tennessee--Memphis
Sanitation workers--Tennessee--Memphis
Strikes and lockouts--Sanitation--Tennessee
Wages--Sanitation workers--Tennessee--Memphis
Poor People's Campaign
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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Social justice--Southern States
Equality--United States
Equality--Southern States
Justice
Fairness
Liberty
National Organization for Women
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Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation
Affirmative action programs--United States
Discrimination in employment--United States
Busing for school integration--Massachusetts--Boston
Anti-apartheid activists--United States
Anti-apartheid movements--United States
Assassination--Investigation--Tennessee--Memphis
Assassination--Investigation--United States
Governmental investigations--Tennessee--Memphis
Governmental investigations--United States
Conspiracies--United States
Political crimes and offenses--United States
Political violence--United States
Violence--United States
Rotundas--Georgia--Atlanta
Crypts--Georgia--Atlanta
Human rights
Jim's Grill (Memphis, Tenn.)
Georgia State Capitol (Atlanta, Ga.)
New Birth Missionary Baptist Church (Lithonia, Ga.)
Lorraine Motel (Memphis, Tenn.)
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (Montgomery, Ala.)
Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, D.C., 1963
Martin Luther King, Jr., Day--United States
Martin Luther King, Jr., Day--Georgia - People:
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Ray, James Earl, 1928-1998
Jowers, Loyd, -2000
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948
Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013
Mandela, Winnie
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006--Death and burial
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Assassination
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Death and burial - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Perry County, Heiberger, 32.75818, -87.28667
United States, Alabama, Perry County, Marion, 32.63235, -87.31917
United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Boston, 42.35843, -71.05977
United States, Ohio, Greene County, Yellow Springs, 39.80645, -83.88687
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434 - Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Coretta Scott King, a proponent of civil and human rights, who helped her husband, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., lead the modern civil rights movement. During their life together, she was his helpmate, raising their four children while supporting his efforts to promote nonviolent social change in race relations during the 1950s and 1960s. Born in 1927 in Heiberger, Alabama, she graduated from Lincoln Normal School, a private school in Marion, Alabama, supported by the American Missionary Association. She then studied music education and sang with choirs at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, graduating in 1951. Her excellence as a singer earned her a scholarship to New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where she received further music training. She often used her singing talents to raise funds for various civil and human rights causes and activities. She and Martin Luther King, Jr., met in Boston and were married in 1953.After her husband's assassination in 1968, she articulated a vision of his nonviolence expressed internationally through the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change that she founded in Atlanta as a memorial to her slain husband.To foster remembrance of his life and work, she advocated a federal holiday to celebrate his January birthday. She died in January 2006 at a holistic health hospital in Mexico and was both the first woman and the first African American to lie in state at the state capitol rotunda in Atlanta, Georgia.She was buried with her husband at the King Center.
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