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科丽塔·斯科特·金（Coretta Scott King，1927年4月27日－2006年1月30日），女，美国民权活动家。科丽塔·斯科特·金生于美国阿拉巴马州的一个种植棉花的农民家庭。当她在马萨诸塞州新英格兰音乐学院读书期间认识了正在波士顿攻读神学的马丁·路德·金。两人在1953年6月18日结婚。
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott were married on 18 June 1953 at her parents’ home in Alabama. Ahead of her time, Coretta insisted that the word “obey” be removed from their wedding vows. She persisted. The couple spent their honeymoon in a funeral home because segregation prevented them from renting a hotel room.
Coretta Scott King, the widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., died on January 30, 2006, after arriving at a rehabilitation center in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico.Her public funeral followed eight days later at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in her resident state of Georgia.In keeping with her personal wishes, King was buried next to her husband in a crypt on the ...
15 de feb. de 2018 · Barbara Reynolds met Coretta Scott King in 1972, just four years after King’s husband was slain. Martin Luther King Jr. had been the face of the civil rights movement for more than a decade ...
30 de ene. de 2006 · Coretta Scott King died on January 30, 2006 at the age of 78, after a remarkable lifetime dedicated to positive change. She was a powerful voice for justice even when trailblazing women leaders faced immense challenges. As a long-time admirer of Coretta, I‘m amazed at how she endured threats, harassment, and unimaginable grief over her ...
2020 Author Winner. The 2020 Coretta Scott King Book Awards Author Winner is Jerry Craft, author of "New Kid". “New Kid” published by HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, tells the story of Jordan Banks, an artistic Black middle school student who has transferred from public school to an elite, predominantly White private school and must contend not ...
April 27, 1927 – Coretta Scott born in Marion, Alabama. January 1952 – Coretta and Martin meet in Boston. June 18, 1953 – King Sr. performs marriage in Marion, Alabama. It was in Boston that I met and fell in love with the attractive singer Coretta Scott, whose gentle manner and air of repose did not disguise her lively spirit.
