Woman of the Week
Posted by Melody on Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Coretta Scott King:
She was born and raised in Alabama on a farm. She graduated from high school with a scholarship to attend Antioch College in Yellow Springs,Ohio. At Antioch College she majored in music and minored in education. Mrs. King joined the Antioch Chapter NAACP and College's Race Relations and Civil Liberties Comittees. After graduating and receiving her B.A. in music and education, she won a scholarship to attend New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Mass. In New England, she studied voice and violin. There in Boston she met Martin Luther King, Jr. and married him on June 18th 1953. They were married by his father. After completing her degree in voice and violin in Boston, her husband received an appointment to preach at a church in Mongtmery, Alabama. This is where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Mrs. King ended up standing with her to boycott and start marches with her in Alabama.
As she supported her husband by caring for their four children at home. She birthed and performed in Freedom Concerts across the United States. These Freedom Concerts consisted of poetry, narration,and music to tell a story of the Civil Rights Movement. These concerts helped to raise money for the Souther Christian Leadership Conferences that were founded by her husband. In the 60s, Mrs. Coretta took a lead role in engagements. She was the first woman to deliver the Class Day address at Harvard, the first woman to preach at a statutary service at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. She served as a Women's Strike for Peace delegate to the 17 National Disarmament Conference in Geneva, Suiterland in 1962. Mrs. King was involved in the stand against US intervention in the Vietnam War in 1967 long before her husband.
After her husband's death, she went on to continue the work by building the first African American Institution in the World called the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for NonViolent Social Change in 1981. In 1969, she published the 1st volume of her autobiography called "My Life with Martin King Jr." She served as CoChair of the Full Employment Organizations which is dedicated to a national policy of full employment and equal economic opportunities. She led the campaign to establish Dr.King's birthday (Jan. 15th) as a national holiday in the U.S. Now it is celebrated around the world. She went on to celebrate the Historic March on Washington which was a gathering of more than 800 human rights organizations -the Coalition of Conscience, This was the largest demonstration that the Capital had ever seen before. Mrs. Coretta Scott King went on to live and fulfill the legacy many more years. Today, there is a school named Coretta Scott King in Atlanta, GA after her legacy. She died at the age of 78. We thank and applaud and celebrate her today!
References
www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1489
www.answers.com/topic/coretta-scott-king
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King
She was born and raised in Alabama on a farm. She graduated from high school with a scholarship to attend Antioch College in Yellow Springs,Ohio. At Antioch College she majored in music and minored in education. Mrs. King joined the Antioch Chapter NAACP and College's Race Relations and Civil Liberties Comittees. After graduating and receiving her B.A. in music and education, she won a scholarship to attend New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Mass. In New England, she studied voice and violin. There in Boston she met Martin Luther King, Jr. and married him on June 18th 1953. They were married by his father. After completing her degree in voice and violin in Boston, her husband received an appointment to preach at a church in Mongtmery, Alabama. This is where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Mrs. King ended up standing with her to boycott and start marches with her in Alabama.
As she supported her husband by caring for their four children at home. She birthed and performed in Freedom Concerts across the United States. These Freedom Concerts consisted of poetry, narration,and music to tell a story of the Civil Rights Movement. These concerts helped to raise money for the Souther Christian Leadership Conferences that were founded by her husband. In the 60s, Mrs. Coretta took a lead role in engagements. She was the first woman to deliver the Class Day address at Harvard, the first woman to preach at a statutary service at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. She served as a Women's Strike for Peace delegate to the 17 National Disarmament Conference in Geneva, Suiterland in 1962. Mrs. King was involved in the stand against US intervention in the Vietnam War in 1967 long before her husband.
After her husband's death, she went on to continue the work by building the first African American Institution in the World called the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for NonViolent Social Change in 1981. In 1969, she published the 1st volume of her autobiography called "My Life with Martin King Jr." She served as CoChair of the Full Employment Organizations which is dedicated to a national policy of full employment and equal economic opportunities. She led the campaign to establish Dr.King's birthday (Jan. 15th) as a national holiday in the U.S. Now it is celebrated around the world. She went on to celebrate the Historic March on Washington which was a gathering of more than 800 human rights organizations -the Coalition of Conscience, This was the largest demonstration that the Capital had ever seen before. Mrs. Coretta Scott King went on to live and fulfill the legacy many more years. Today, there is a school named Coretta Scott King in Atlanta, GA after her legacy. She died at the age of 78. We thank and applaud and celebrate her today!
References
www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1489
www.answers.com/topic/coretta-scott-king
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King