#133 - CORETTA

February has been designated as the month that we celebrate Black History in the United States. In this post, I am honoring the HERstory of Coretta Scott King, Civil Rights Activist and widow of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Here are some little known facts about Mrs. King:

1. She was valedictorian of her Lincoln High School class.

2. She was a talented soprano who studied and got a degree in violin and voice at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA.

3. She was a graduate of Antioch College in Ohio.

4. She protested the war in Vietnam long before her husband Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out against it.

5. She along with her husband went on a month long pilgrimage through India.

6. She successfully advocated and lobbied for her husband's birthday to be celebrated in his honor. He was the first non-president to have a national holiday - celebrated the 3rd Monday of January - in his honor.

7. She is the founder of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change aka The King Center.

8. She did not appreciate how she was oftentimes portrayed in the media. [See quote below]

9. She was an advocate for the rights of the LGBTQ community.

10. In the Biriya Forest in Southern Israel trees were planted to honor Coretta Scott King and her very vocal denoucement of anti-Semitism.

11. In 1985 she was arrested along with her children Martin III, Yolanda and Bernice in Washington, DC for protesting the South African policy of apartheid outside the South African Embassy.

12. The Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy (CSKYLA) was founded in 2007.

"Often, I am made to sound like an attachment to a vacuum cleaner: the wife of Martin, then the widow of Martin, all of which I was proud to be. But I was never just a wife, nor a widow. I was always more than a label." ~ Mrs. Coretta Scott King as quoted by King biographer and journalist Barbara Reynolds, Washington Post.

Coretta Scott King Speaks!!! June 19, 1968 - Solidarity Day at Resurrection City, Poor People's Campaign

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Coretta Scott King is quoted as saying that she hoped to be remembered “as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a rich storehouse of experiences, much like everyone else, yet unique in my own way…much like everyone else.” [courtesy of History.com]

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