Humanitarian and Civil Rights Activist 1927 —2006

Humanitarian and Civil Rights Activist 1927 --2006

"If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children. “ Coretta Scott King

q. April 27, 1927 - Coretta Scott is born in Perry County, Ala. q 1947 - Begins attending Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She would earn a bachelor's in music and education and later study concert singing at Boston's New Egland Conservatory of Music.

q. June 18, 1953 - Marries the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Marion, Ala. q. Nov. 17, 1955 - Yolanda Denise is born in Montgomery, Ala.

Coretta, the Mother Coretta Scott King plays piano and sings with her children Yolanda, Marty, Dexter and Bernice at home after church

q. Jan. 30, 1956 - A bomb is thrown onto the Kings' Montgomery home. Coretta King is in the house with baby Yolanda. No one is injured. q Oct. 23, 1957 - Martin Luther King III is born in Montgomery.

A Family Together Martin Luther King Jr. eats Sunday dinner with his wife, Coretta Scott King, and their young children at home in Atlanta

q Jan. 24, 1960 - The King family moves from Montgomery to Atlanta, where King becomes copastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church with his father. q Jan. 30, 1961 - Dexter Scott King is born in Atlanta. q March 28, 1963 - Bernice Albertine King is born in Atlanta.

Aug. 28, 1963 - At the March on Washington, King delivers his "I Have A Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

Nobel Peace Prize Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King during a news conference following the announcement that he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Selma Alabama March Martin Luther King, Jr. with his wife Coretta Scott King and colleagues during the famous march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery, March 1965.

Side by Side Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta march together along a rural Mississippi road with the March Against Fear.

Coretta Scott King and her daughters, Yolanda and Bernice, talk with a fellow parishioner outside Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.

April 4, 1968 King is assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. Coretta Scott King holds her sleeping daughter Bernice at the funeral of her husband, Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center June 26, 1968 Coretta King founds the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center in Atlanta.

Author Coretta Scott King displaying her book My Life With Martin Luther King Jr. February 9, 1970.

Coretta Scott King speaks at a peace demonstration in Washington, D. C. , 1970.

Martin Luther King Day Nov. 3, 1983 President Reagan signs a bill establishing the third Monday of every January as the Martin Luther King Jr. National Holiday.

Picketing Apartheid Coretta Scott King walks a picket line with others to protest apartheid in South Africa, in this November, 1984 at the South African Embassy in Washington. King, who turned a life into one devoted to shattered by her enshrining his legacy of husband's assassination human rights and equality.

40 th Anniversary Bus Boycott Coretta Scott King, left, Jaunita Abernathy, center, and Rosa Parks at Alabama State University on Dec 2, 1995 to the 40 th anniversary of the commemorate Montgomery Bus Boycott

Coretta Scott King speaks at a commemorative service honoring her late husband at Ebenezer Baptist Church in 1997

First Lady of Civil Rights Coretta Scott King “A Museum of Living History” is inducted 1997 “When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone. ”

A Woman with a Purpose Coretta Scott King addresses a large crowd at Brown Chapel AME church during a premarch rally before the reenactment of the crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge Sunday, March 6, 2005 in Selma, Ala.

A Dream to be Carried On q Aug. 16, 2005 - Suffers a stroke. q Jan 16, 2006 - Watches the King Day ceremonies on television, the 20 th anniversary of the federal holiday. q Jan. 31, 2006 - The family announces she died overnight

A Place of Honor Coretta Scott King being carried by Georgia State Troops to lie in state in the Capital in Atlanta Georgia, Saturday, February 4, 2006

Coretta Scott King lies in honor as mourners pass by in Atlanta on February 4, 2006. The wife of the slain civil rights leader who died on January 30 th at the age of 78 is the first woman and the first black person to lie in honor in Georgia. Four to five thousand people an hour came to view King lying in honor.

In memory of Coretta Scott King Complied and Edited by Crystal Love