Coretta Scott King's Leadership

Coretta Scott

Coretta Scott King was an activist from Alabama and the wife of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Even during her husband's lifetime, she co-led movements such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and after her husband's assassination in 1968, she established the King Center, a non-profit organization for nonviolent social change. She vigorously promoted women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, poverty eradication, and the anti-nuclear and peace movements, and successfully advocated for the establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday, active as a symbolic leader of the modern human rights movement.

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Year	Coretta Scott
1927	Birth of Coretta Scott (Period: April 27, 1927, Location: Near Marion, Alabama, United States)
1940	Music Education and Singing Career (Age: 12 years old, Period: 1940s–1950s, Location: Marion, Alabama; Yellow Springs, Ohio; Boston, Massachusetts)
1941	World War II (Age: 13 years old, Period: 1941–1945, Location: No direct combat participation)
1952	Meeting Martin Luther King Jr. (Age: 24 years old, Period: 1952, Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
1953	Marriage (Coretta Scott, Martin Luther King Jr., Age: 26 years old, Period: June 18, 1953, Location: Garden of the Scott Family Residence near Marion, Alabama, United States)
1954	Relocation to Montgomery and Participation in the Civil Rights Movement (Coretta Scott, Age: 26 years old, Period: 1954–1956, Location: Montgomery, Alabama, United States)
1955	Montgomery bus boycott (Age: 28 years old, Period: December 1955–December 1956, Location: Montgomery, Alabama, United States)
1963	Vietnam War (Age: 35 years old, Period: 1960s, especially 1963–1969, Location: Vietnam and the United States) Participation in the March on Washington (Coretta Scott, Age: 36 years old, Period: August 28, 1963, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1964	Activities Surrounding the Nobel Peace Prize (Coretta Scott, Age: 36 years old, Period: 1964, Location: Oslo, Norway)
1965	Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights Movement (Age: 37 years old, Period: March 1965, Location: Selma to Montgomery, Alabama)
1968	Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Age: 40 years old, Period: April 4, 1968, Location: Memphis, Tennessee, United States) Participation in the Poor People's Campaign (Coretta Scott, Age: 41 years old, Period: May–June 1968, Location: Washington, D.C., United States) Establishment of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (Age: 41 years old, Period: June 26, 1968, Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States)
1970	Campaign for the Establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Age: 42 years old, Period: 1970s–1983, Location: Washington, D.C. and other areas, United States) Expansion of Activism into Women's Rights, Peace, and Human Rights (Age: 42 years old, Period: 1970s–2000s, Location: United States and abroad)
1980	South African Anti-Apartheid Movement (Age: 52 years old, Period: 1980s–1990s, Location: Washington, D.C., United States, South Africa, etc.)
1986	South Africa Visit and Anti-Apartheid Activities (Age: 58 years old, Period: 1986, Location: South Africa)
2005	Stroke and Later Years (Coretta Scott, Age: 77 years old, Period: 2005–2006, Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States; Rosarito, Mexico)
2006	Death of Coretta Scott (Age: 78 years old, Period: January 30, 2006)

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The Johnson Family	Lyndon Baines Johnson Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson Luci Baines Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson Jr.
The King Family	Michael King Jr. Coretta Scott Michael King Alberta Christine Williams Alfred Daniel King Willie Christine King

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