#Coretta Scott King

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In 1967, Julia Roberts' parents welcomed Martin Luther King Jr.'s children into their Atlanta acting school during segregation. When the Roberts family couldn't pay the hospital bill after Julia's birth, the Kings covered the expenses in gratitude.

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Coretta Scott King with her daughters Yolanda King and Bernice King at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on November 8, 1964. 

Photos by Flip Schulke

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Coretta Scott King by Melinda Hagman

American author, activist, and civil rights leader and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Dr. Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta are smiling and cheerful during their interview at Harlem Hospital on September 30, 1958, as King recovers from a near-fatal stabbing ten days earlier at a book signing in Harlem.

Photo: Al Pucci for the NY Daily News

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couldn't find this posted elsewhere so wanted to highlight this excellent article about Coretta Scott King's work & legacy, especially in loving Black queer people & working for queer liberation

image description: two screenshots from the Autostraddle article "How Coretta Scott King Leveraged MLK's Legacy to Fight for Gay Rights." the text reads:

In the mid-1980s, when President Ronald Reagan wouldn’t even acknowledge the disease, Scott King – with the help of her assistant Lynn Cothren, an openly gay man — used the King Center to create a welcoming environment for the LGBT community, especially queer black people who were suffering in the middle of a generational genocide from HIV/AIDS. After the death of a close gay friend, she hosted a day of memorial at the Center and encouraged participants to sew stitches on a panel that would become part of the AIDS memorial quilt.

On March 31st 1998, at the 25th Anniversary luncheon for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, King spoke out against strands of conservatism in black communities that had kept some members reluctant to join the gay rights movement. She stated, “I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice… but I hasten to remind that Martin Luther King, Jr. said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream to make room at the table of brotherhood and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.”

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Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day ✊🏿

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Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968

"I flew to Atlanta and arrived in advance of the plane that was carrying Dr. King’s body. I had been in an area of the tarmac that was allotted for photographers, but I moved out of it for a moment and caught one frame of his widow, Coretta Scott King, and their children as they prepared to step down from the plane."

Photographer: Harry Benson

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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. As an advocate for African-American equality, she was a leader for the civil rights movement in the 1960s. King was also a singer who often incorporated music into her civil rights work. King met her husband while attending graduate school in Boston. They both became increasingly active in the American civil rights movement.

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Today We Honor Martin & Coretta

Marriage & Movement: It’s what made this couple’s union so special.

Coretta once said, “After we married, we moved to Montgomery, Alabama, where my husband had accepted an invitation to be the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. Before long, we found ourselves in the middle of the Montgomery bus boycott, and Martin was elected leader of the protest movement. As the boycott continued, I had a growing sense that I was involved in something so much greater than myself, something of profound historic importance.

I came to the realization that we had been thrust into the forefront of a movement to liberate oppressed people, not only in Montgomery but also throughout our country, and this movement had worldwide implications. I felt blessed to have been called to be a part of such a noble and historic cause.”

CARTER™️ Magazine

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Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King enjoying a Sunday dinner with their children at home in Atlanta on November 8, 1964.

Photos by Flip Schulke

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Genius: MLK/X (2024)

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Coretta Scott King posing with her children [with a portrait of her late husband, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, in the background] (1972)