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Martin Luther King Jr. is welcomed with a kiss from his wife, Coretta Scott King, after leaving court in Montgomery, AL, on March 22, 1956. 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 Jr. from 1953 until his assassination in 1968.
Coretta Scott King (Class of 1951) gifted her name to Antioch College to create the Coretta Scott King Center in 2005. [1] Fitting with the college's longstanding strength in experiential learning, [2] the agreement stated that the center would be used as an experiential teaching center on issues of race, class, gender, diversity, and social justice for the campus and the surrounding community ...
The Coretta Scott King Center on the campus in Yellow Springs, Ohio. In 2000, Antioch College was again subject to media attention after inviting political activist and former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal and transgender rights advocate and Abu-Jamal supporter Leslie Feinberg to be commencement speakers.
How Did Coretta Scott King Die? Sadly, Coretta Scott King suffered a stroke and heart attack in August of 2005. Five months later, while seeking ovarian cancer treatment in Rosarito, Mexico ...
The Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy (CSKYWLA) was opened in Atlanta, Georgia, United States in August 2007.For a short time the academy was simply referred to as "the girls' single gender academy," but it was later named by its first principal, Melody Morgan, in honor of the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King, the civil rights leader and wife of Martin Luther King Jr.
Lauren Betts had 24 points, nine rebounds and a school-record nine blocks to help No. 1 UCLA beat 25th-ranked Baylor 72-57 on Monday in the inaugural Coretta Scott King Classic. The doubleheader ...
Coretta Scott King, 1927-2006. Wife of Martin Luther King Jr., who fought for women's equality and civil rights. ... Women's college basketball head coach who accrued 1,098 wins throughout her ...
The Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize is awarded by The King Center. [8] A non-exhaustive list of recipients includes: Cesar Chavez (1973); Stanley Levison and Kenneth Kaunda (1978); Rosa Parks (1980); Martin Luther King Sr. and Richard Attenborough (1983); Corazon Aquino (1987); Mikhail Gorbachev (1991); and, on April 4, 2018 – the 50th anniversary of King's assassination ...