Did You Know?
That Coretta Scott King was born on April 27, 1929 in Marion, Alabama in Perry County and that her parents were truck farmers?
That Coretta S. King made money by working for neighbors picking cotton?
That during Ms King’s school years she had to walk to and from (about 6 miles) school while white children were bused to and from a closer school?
That Coretta Scott went to Lincoln High School in Marion, Alabama?
That at Lincoln she became interested in music and decided music would be her
career?
That in 1945 Ms King graduated from Lincoln High School and won a partial
scholarship to Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio?
That she then went to the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston,
Massachusetts and it was there that she met Martin Luther King, Jr. ?
That Coretta Scott and Martin Luther King Jr. were married on June 18, 1953?
That Martin Luther King was a minister and that meant that Coretta Scott would be giving up her career as a performing concert artist.
That Martin Luther King Jr. became the minister at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama and both Coretta S. King and Martin Luther King became important leaders in the Civil Right Movement?
That the Kings had three children?
That On April 4, 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee?
That Coretta Scott King was a civil rights activist?
That at Lincoln she became interested in music and decided music would be her career?
That in 1945 Ms King graduated from Lincoln High School and won a partial scholarship to Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio?
That she then went to the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts and it was there that she met Martin Luther King Jr?
That Coretta Scott and Martin Luther King Jr. were married on June 18, 1953?
That Martin Luther King was a minister and that meant that Coretta Scott would be giving up her career as a performing concert artist.
That Martin Luther King Jr. became the minister at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama and both Coretta S. King and Martin Luther King became important leaders in the Civil Right Movement?
That the Kings had three children?
That On April 4, 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee?
That Coretta Scott King was a civil rights activist?
That Ms King continued to speak out after her husbands’ death and continued his work. And that she wrote a book called “My Life with Martin Luther King Jr.?
That the Coretta Scott King Award is given every year by the American Library Association and it is given to an African American author and an African American Illustrator for an outstanding inspirational and educational book published that year?
