1927-2006

The life story of Coretta Scott King?wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the Martin Luther King Jr. 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. Dr. Barbara Reynolds.

Kathryn Johnson, one of the only female reporters there, covered the civil rights movement across the South in the 1960's often risking her own safety to observe first-hand the events of this era. She witnessed the integration of the University of Georgia by dressing as a student, hid unobserved under a table near an infamous schoolhouse door in Alabama, and marched with the crowd from Selma to Montgomery. She was on her way to a movie date when word came that Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated. She immediately changed her plans and went to cover the story. Johnson's many years covering King and the movement gave her immediate access and King's family trusted her as a discreet, observant witness to a pivotal moment in American history.

Coretta Scott King played a pivotal role in the civil rights movement, not just as the wife of a powerful man but as an influential woman. She gave concerts to raise money and awareness for her causes, winning people's hearts with music, in addition to participating in politics, marches, and demonstrations.

Presents a poetic story that explores the life of Coretta Scott King and her accomplishments during the Civil Rights Movement.

Profiles African-American leader Coretta Scott King, whose lifelong devotion to the cause of civil rights included founding the Center for Nonviolent Social Change to carry on the legacy of her late husband, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

An illustrated biography of Coretta Scott King, an American civil rights activist, and the wife of civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Profiles the life and career of Coretta Scott King and her work for equal rights for African-Americans.

"This extraordinary union of poetic text by Ntozake Shange and monumental artwork by Kadir Nelson captures the movement for civil rights in the United States and honors its most elegant inspiration, Coretta Scott."--Container.

This book is a biography of Coretta Scott King, who established the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change and who lobbied to make Dr. King's birthday a national holiday.