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But in love and devoted to shared Christian beliefs as well as shared racial and economic justice goals, she married Dr. As a graduate student at the New England Conservatory of Music, determined to pursue her own career as a concert singer, she met Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister insistent that his wife stay home with the children. While enrolled as one of the first black scholarship students recruited to Antioch College, she became politically and socially active and committed to the peace movement.

Barbara Reynolds.īorn in 1927 to daringly enterprising parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (The King Center), and singular twentieth-century American civil and human rights activist-as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to Rev. The life story of Coretta Scott King-wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the Martin Luther King Jr. generous, in a manner that is unfashionable in our culture." - New York Times Book Review "This book is distinctly Coretta's story. Read it Forward, Favorite Reads of January 2017 The Washington Post ’s Books to Read in 2017

The union thrust Coretta into a maelstrom of history, throughout which her tireless fight for political and social justice established her as a champion of American civil rights.Now, fifty years after her husband's death, the story of Coretta's life is told in full for the first time: a love story, a family saga, a record of the legacy left by this extraordinary woman.The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice the man who would one day become her husband. After an awakening to political and social activism at college, Coretta went on to study at the New England Conservatory of Music, where she met Martin Luther King Jr.

And Coretta did that.' Maya AngelouBorn in 1927 in the Deep South, Coretta Scott always felt called to a special purpose.

a female who takes responsibility for creating something better in the time she has and the space she has to occupy: that is true greatness. and singular twentieth-century American civil and human rights activist.'Coretta is more relevant today than ever. The life story of Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King Jr.