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	King Encyclopedia
		Coretta King put her musical training to use throughout the fl freedom struggle, participating in "freedom concerts," which included poetry recitation, singing, and lectures related to the history of the civil rights movement.
		Coretta King accompanied her husband on many of his trips, traveling to Ghana in 1957 and India in 1959.
		Coretta Scott King has supported nonviolent freedom struggles around the world and has served as an advocate for racial and economic justice, religious freedom, and dignity and human rights for women and children, gays and lesbians, and people with disabilities.
	www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/king_coretta_scott.htm (933 words)

	Coretta Scott King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Coretta Scott was born on a farm in Heiberger, Alabama.
		King was vocal in her opposition to capital punishment and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, thus drawing criticism from conservative groups.
		King's body was returned to Atlanta and carried through the streets on a horse-drawn carriage to the Georgia State Capitol as the crowd threw roses at the casket and a lone bagpiper played "Amazing Grace"; King became the first woman and fl person to lie in state at the Georgia State Capitol.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coretta_Scott_King (2917 words)

	King Encyclopedia
		Coretta King put her musical training to use throughout the fl freedom struggle, participating in "freedom concerts," which included poetry recitation, singing, and lectures related to the history of the civil rights movement.
		Coretta King accompanied her husband on many of his trips, traveling to Ghana in 1957 and India in 1959.
		Coretta Scott King has supported nonviolent freedom struggles around the world and has served as an advocate for racial and economic justice, religious freedom, and dignity and human rights for women and children, gays and lesbians, and people with disabilities.
	stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/king_coretta_scott.htm (933 words)

	Coretta Scott King, 78, Widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dies - New York Times
		King did not hesitate to pick up his mantle, marching, even before her husband was buried, at the head of the striking garbage workers that he had gone to Memphis to champion.
		King has been seen as an inspirational figure around the world, a tireless advocate for her husband's causes and a woman of enormous spiritual depth who came to personify the ideals Dr. King fought for.
		Coretta Scott was born April 27, 1927, the second of three children born to Obadiah and Bernice Scott.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/01/31/national/31cnd-coretta.html?ex=1296363600&en=bf6d2c26ed2dbbb4&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (995 words)

	Coretta Scott King
		King inherited a love of music from her mother, and at Lincoln High School she learned to play the trumpet and piano, and sang as a soloist at school recitals.
		The next few years saw Coretta King sharing as full partner in her husband's work, walking beside him in marches, travelling abroad with him, and giving speeches when he was unable to do so.
		Coretta Scott King and her son Dexter King appealed to Attorney General Janet Reno and to President Bill Clinton for a national commission investigating the assassination.
	www.edwardsly.com /kingcs.htm (1343 words)

	King Chronologies
		Coretta Scott graduated from Lincoln High School, a private Black institution with an integrated faculty, and in 1945 she followed her older sister Edyth to Antioch College in Ohio, where she received a B.A. in music and elementary education.
		Coretta King also worked closely with her husband and was present at many of the major civil rights events of the 1950s and 1960s.
		In the mid-1960s, Coretta King's involvement in the civil rights movement increased as she performed "freedom concerts," which consisted of poetry recitation, singing, and lectures demonstrating the history of the civil rights movement.
	www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/details/270427b.htm (1100 words)

	ALA \| Coretta Scott King Book Award
		Coretta Scott King spoke at the 10th anniversary of the CSK Award Breakfast.
		Coretta Scott King appeared and spoke at the breakfast.
		The CSK New Talent Award was established in 1994 in recognition of aspiring new talent and presented for the first time in 1995.
	www.ala.org /ala/emiert/corettascottkingbookawards/abouttheawarda/cskabout.htm (1306 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: "Freedom fighter" in her own right
		Coretta Scott King stands in front of a painting of her late husband, civil-rights leader the Rev. Dr.
		King was suffering from advanced ovarian cancer when she arrived last week at the alternative medicine clinic where she died early Tuesday, clinic doctors said.
		King was an outspoken critic of the Iraq war and supported many social causes, saying her husband had died fighting for the rights of all people.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002775171_kingobit01.html (1122 words)

	Coretta Scott King (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Coretta was born on April 27, 1929 in Marion, Alabama in a Perry County.
		During Coretta's school years she had to walk about 6 miles to school and 6 miles back from school, while white children were bused to and from school.
		Coretta felt that the six grades at the elementary school "did not do much to prepare" her, Coretta Scott went to Lincoln High School in Marion, Alabama.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/womenenc/king3.htm (326 words)

	CBS News \| Coretta Scott King Dies at 78
		Coretta Scott King was a supportive lieutenant to her husband during the most dangerous and tumultuous days of the civil rights movement, and after his assassination in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968, she carried on his work while also raising their four children.
		King died at Santa Monica Health Institute in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, south of San Diego, said her sister, Edythe Scott Bagley of Cheyney, Pa. She had gone to California to rest and be with family, according to Young.
		Coretta Scott was studying voice at the New England Conservatory of Music and planning on a singing career when a friend introduced her to King, a young Baptist minister studying at Boston University.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/02/01/ap/national/mainD8FG120G1.shtml (1454 words)

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		To link Coretta King's life to that of her husband's is inevitable, especially in light of the work she had done to protect, maintain and enhance his legacy.
		Coretta Scott was born April 27, 1927, in Marion, Ala., to Bernice McMurry Scott and Obadiah Scott, who farmed his own land and owned a truck, which he used to haul logs and timber for the local sawmill.
		Survivors include two daughters, Yolanda Denise King of Los Angeles and the Rev. Bernice Albertine King of Atlanta, and two sons, Martin Luther King III of Atlanta and Dexter Scott King of Malibu, Calif. She is also survived by a sister, Edythe Bagley of Cheney, Pa., and a brother, Obie Scott of Tuscaloosa, Ala.
	www.ajc.com /metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/0131metkingobit.html (4226 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Women's History - Biographies - Coretta Scott King
		King inherited a love of music from her mother, and at Lincoln High School she learned to play the trumpet and piano, and sang as a soloist at school recitals.
		With the boycott came danger — the King house was bombed in 1956 —and from then on King had to be constantly alert on behalf of her children as well as her husband.
		Coretta Scott King and her son Dexter King appealed to Attorney General Janet Reno and to President Bill Clinton for a national commission investigating the assassination.
	www.gale.cengage.com /free_resources/whm/bio/king_c_s.htm (1476 words)

	Coretta Scott King (1927-2006) - TIME
		Coretta Scott King, the widow of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., died in her sleep early Tuesday morning at the age of 78.
		King's official cause of death is listed as cardio-respiratory failure, cerebral vascular illness and ovarian cancer, with her heart and lung failures owing in part to the stroke.
		Coretta and King met in 1952 in Boston where she was studying music at the New England Conservatory, having already studied at Antioch College in Ohio.
	www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,1154673,00.html (785 words)

	Online NewsHour: Remembering the Life of Coretta Scott King -- January 31, 2006
		CORETTA SCOTT KING (Feb. 12, 1988): It was a mission of fl Americans during the civil rights movement not merely to obtain our freedom but to expand democracy for all Americans.
		King, we are joined by two friends of the family: The Reverend Joseph Lowery co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Dr. King, and led the organization for 20 years.
		Obviously, Coretta Scott King's baby that she created in 1969, that there's a family feud that there is some effort to try to sell it to the Park Service to put it basically put Humpty Dumpty back together again because it's deteriorated so.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/jan-june06/king_1-31.html (1924 words)

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		Coretta Scott King was in Mexico for cancer treatment when she died late Monday, her family said today.
		King was in Mexico for observation and consideration of treatment for ovarian cancer.
		King was mourned Tuesday not only as the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but as an inspiration and a woman of grace and dignity.
	www.ajc.com /news/content/metro/atlanta/stories/0131king.html (1333 words)

	Coretta Scott King Honored as Civil Rights Champion : NPR
		King is being honored as a champion of human rights and for a life dedicated to peace and justice.
		Coretta Scott was studying voice at Boston's New England Conservatory of Music and planning on a singing career when she met her future husband.
		King became a symbol, in her own right, of her husband's struggle for peace and brotherhood, presiding with a quiet, steady, stoic presence over seminars and conferences on global issues.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5180053 (947 words)

	Living Encyclopedia of Global African Music - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Coretta Scott King's body is placed in a temporary mausoleum about 100 feet from her husband's tomb until a permanent one can be built next to Martin Luther King's, said the company hired to handle the burial arrangements.
		Coretta Scott King was born and raised in Marion, Alabama, and graduated valedictorian from Lincoln High School.
		King functioned as liaison to peace and justice organizations, and as mediator to public officials on behalf of the unheard, even prior to her husband's public stand against the Vietnam War in 1967.
	aainnovators.com /CMS/modules/news/article.php?storyid=52 (1132 words)

	Coretta Scott King Biography -- Academy of Achievement
		Coretta Scott was born in Heiberger, Alabama and raised on the farm of her parents Bernice McMurry Scott, and Obadiah Scott, in Perry County, Alabama.
		King's fame spread beyond the United States, and he was increasingly seen not only as a leader of the American civil rights movement, but as the symbol of an international struggle for human liberation from racism, colonialism and all forms of oppression and discrimination.
		King was invited by President Clinton to witness the historic handshake between Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Chairman Yassir Arafat at the signing of the Middle East Peace Accords in 1993.
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/kin1bio-1 (1465 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: King, Coretta Scott
		Coretta Scott grew up walking three miles each day to school while school buses carrying white children drove by, blowing dust in her face.
		King and her family worked hand in hand with the Center, for which she was the president as well.
		The Coretta Scott King Award, which is presented by the American Library Association, is presented annually to a fl author and a fl illustrator for their outstanding inspirational and educational contributions published during the previous year.
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/king_coretta_scott.html (1154 words)

	A Full Partner in The Dream - washingtonpost.com
		Coretta Scott King, who with grace and determination kept her husband's legacy alive and emerged as one of America's most influential voices for social change and human rights, died yesterday at an alternative medical clinic in Mexico.
		King did not simply inherit her husband's legacy; instead, she was a full partner in marriage and in the struggle for equality, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) said yesterday.
		King, with her three oldest children by her side, led tens of thousands of people in a protest march for sanitation workers in Memphis that her husband planned.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/31/AR2006013101598.html (837 words)

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		King traveled throughout the world speaking out on behalf of racial and economic justice, women's and children's rights, gay and lesbian dignity, religious freedom, the needs of the poor and homeless, full-employment, health care, educational opportunities, nuclear disarmament and ecological sanity.
		King functioned as liaison to peace and justice organizations, and as mediator to public officials on behalf of the unheard.
		King oversaw the first legal holiday in honor of her husband--a holiday which has come to be celebrated by millions of people world-wide and, in some form, in over 100 countries.
	www.thekingcenter.org /csk/bio.html (981 words)

	Coretta Scott King Leaves Own Legacy - washingtonpost.com
		Coretta Scott King turned a life shattered by her husband's assassination into one devoted to enshrining his legacy.
		King had a stroke in August that left her partly paralyzed, and she had not fully recovered when she learned of the cancer diagnosis.
		With King's death, the future of the center she established in her husband's name is thrown into further uncertainty as the couple's four children argue over whether to keep the deteriorating facility in the family or sell it to the federal government for millions of dollars.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/31/AR2006013100462.html (714 words)

	Richard Pryor, Giant of Comedy, Dead at Age 65
		"Coretta Scott King was a good, strong woman and keeper of the dream that was Dr. King’s and America’s dream," said Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund and longtime friend of Coretta and Dr. King.
		King’s vision for a memorial to her husband’s legacy, however, was often at odds with the vision those of others in the movement, who accused the King Center early on of draining funds and energy from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which her husband had headed.
		Even in recent months, as it was clear that King was fighting for her life, the center was mired in continued controversy, with her two sons, Martin III and Dexter, vying for control of it.
	www.seeingblack.com /2006/x020306/coretta_scott_king.shtml (1177 words)

	Coretta Scott King compares gay and black civil rights movements
		King made it clear that groups like the Concerned Women for America have no idea what they're talking about when they try to speak on behalf of African-Americans by criticizing the struggle for gay equality.
		Coretta Scott King, speaking four days before the 30th anniversary of her husband's assassination, said Tuesday the civil rights leader's memory demanded a strong stand for gay and lesbian rights.
		Coretta Scott King, the wife of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Tuesday called on the civil rights community to join in the struggle against homophobia and anti-gay bias.
	www.hatecrime.org /subpages/coretta.html (1122 words)

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