Tayari's Blog: Remembering Coretta Scott King

Posted by TayariJones on January 31, 2006 03:51 PM
Filed under Current Events

Mrs. Coretta Scoot King died last night at the age of 1978. The following is a remembrance of her:

Mrs. King rose from rural poverty in Heiberger, Ala., to become an international symbol of the civil rights revolution of the 1960s and a tireless advocate for a long litany of social and political issues ranging from women's rights to the struggle against apartheid in South Africa that followed in its wake.

She was studying music at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston in 1952 when she met a young graduate student in philosophy, who on their first date told her: "The four things that I look for in a wife are character, personality, intelligence and beauty. And you have them all." A year later she and Dr. King, then a young minister from a prominent Atlanta family, were married, beginning a remarkable partnership that ended with Dr. King's assassination in Memphis on April 4, 1968.

Read the rest of the article here. It will show you a side of Mrs. King that you didn't know.

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