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People (Mar 2006)

(Source: http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/060201/king2.shtml and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King)

Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was the wife of the assassinated civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., and a noted community leader in her own right.

Coretta Scott was born on a farm in Heiberger, Alabama. Though her family owned the land, it was often a hard life. All the children had to pick cotton during the Great Depression to help the family make ends meet. Graduating from Lincoln Normal School in Marion, Alabama at the top of her class in 1945, Corretta Scott went to Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. After graduation she won a scholarship to the New England Conservatory to study concert singing in Boston, where she met Martin Luther King Jr. The Kings were married on June 18, 1953 on the lawn of her parents' house; the ceremony was performed by King's father. After completing her degree in voice and violin at the New England Conservatory, she moved with her husband to Montgomery, Alabama in September 1954.

Just two weeks after the birth of King's first child, Rosa Parks was arrested on a Montgomery bus, helping spark what would develop into the modern civil rights movement. Corretta Scott's husband soon emerged as a major leader of the movement. She later put together a series of Freedom Concerts, which combined poetry, narration and music both to highlight the movement and to raise funds for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Robinson said King played a bigger role in the civil rights movement than history has recorded. She was active, especially with the Upward Bound Program, which helped black people learn to read and vote. She was her husband's right-hand woman, the retired Moulton teacher said. "She may have not been on the front, but she was always in the arena," Robinson said.

Mrs. King died in the late evening of January 30, 2006 at a rehabilitation center in Rosarito Beach, Mexico. "America lost a great woman," said Robinson, who marched in the streets of Birmingham and was jailed with King's husband in the 1960s.Over 14,000 people gathered for King's six-hour funeral at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia on February 7, 2006 where daughter Bernice King is an elder. George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter, their wives, with the exception of Barbara Bush, and numerous other political figures attended the service. President George W. Bush opened his State of the Union address the night of January 31 by paying tribute to her. On February 6, 2006, Bush issued a proclamation flags to be flown at half staff throughout the day of King's interment, February 7. John Lewis (D-Georgia) stated:

I first met Mrs. King in 1957 when I was only 17. I was a student in Nashville, Tennessee. She was traveling around America, especially in cities of the South telling the story of the Montgomery movement through song. She was so beautiful, so inspiring, she would sing a little, and she would talk a little, and through her singing and talks she inspired an entire generation.