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Article: Coretta Scott King
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Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King (born 1929) was the wife of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. She gained an international reputation as an advocate of civil rights, nonviolence, international peace, full employment, and equal rights for women.
Coretta Scott was born on April 27, 1929, in Perry County, Alabama, into a family that had owned land since the Civil War. Her parents, Obadiah and Bernice Scott, were truck farmers. Even though the Scotts were better off financially than most Blacks in the area, life for them and their three children was difficult. Scott, along with her mother and sister, tended the family garden and crops, fed the chickens and hogs, and ...
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... ... Dateline: ATLANTA Coretta Scott King, the widow ... leader Martin Luther King Jr., was hospitalized ... family, Martin Luther King III said his ... Alabama-born Coretta Scott was studying ... founded the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for ...
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