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Coretta Scott King died late on the evening of January 30, 2006 [2] at the rehabilitation center in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, in the Oasis Hospital where she was undergoing holistic therapy for her stroke and advanced stage ovarian cancer. The main cause of her death is believed to be respiratory failure due to complications from ovarian cancer. [3]
Coretta Scott King (née Scott; April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who was the wife of Martin Luther King ...
She died on January 30, 2006, but her legacy through her words of inspiration and motivation still lives on. Here are 35 of the most inspiring Coretta Scott King quotes.
King's first funeral took place on April 5, 1968, at R.S. Lewis Funeral Home in Memphis. After the shooting, King was taken by ambulance to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. King's closest aides contacted Robert Lewis Jr.—a local funeral director who had first met King two days prior—to retrieve the body and prepare it for viewing.
“Reducing Coretta Scott King to a ‘ride or die chick’ is pathetic,” one person wrote in a post on X. Another added: “Coretta Scott King was not a sidekick. She was an activist before and ...
The Loyd Jowers trial, known as King family v. Jowers and other unknown co-conspirators , was an American wrongful death lawsuit brought to trial by the family of Martin Luther King Jr. against Loyd Jowers .
Warren attempted to quote a letter written by Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow, in 1986 when Sessions was considered for federal judgeship. Check out photos of Dr. King
Yolanda King, the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, played Shabazz in the 1981 television movie Death of a Prophet, [91] and Shabazz was portrayed by Victoria Dillard in the 2001 film Ali. [92]