Coretta+Scott+King

=Coretta Scott King = = By:Kierre       Source: [|//http://www.grupo-utopia.com//]       King, Coretta Scott, 1927–2006, American [|civil-rights] leader, b. Heiberger, Ala. She is the widow of Martin Luther [|King], Jr. After his assassination, she carried on his civil-rights work. In the late 1990s she and other family members supported the unsuccessCoretta Scott King was the wife of civil rights leader [|Martin Luther King, Jr.]. The couple met in Boston, where Coretta Scott was studying voice at the New England Conservatory of Music; they were married on 18 June 1953. The family moved to Montgomery, Alabama and then to Atlanta as Dr. King became a civil rights leader and a prominent public figure. After Dr. King's assassination in 1968, Coretta King established the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta; she also supported the establishment of a national holiday in honor of her husband, an idea which became law in 1986. Coretta and Martin Luther King had four children: Yolanda (born 1955), Martin Luther III (b. 1957), Dexter (b. 1961), and Bernice (1963).ful efforts of James Earl Ray, the convicted assassion of her husband, to win a new trial, believing that Martin Luther King was the victim of a conspiracy that may have inc  = 