• Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, led freedom marchers in Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

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• Coretta and the four King children, played piano.

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• Coretta Scott King led “March on Memphis” 09 April 1968, five days after the assassination of her husband. 

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• Coretta didn't want to be a pastor's wife.

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• Coretta said that when she first met Martin it was not love at first sight.

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• Coretta did not give up music without a fight, nor did she give up her voice on other matters.

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• On January 30th, 1956 the King family home was bombed when a brick was thrown onto the porch. Coretta and her daughter, Yolanda, were unharmed and when Coretta’s father insisted she leave Montgomery and go back to Atlanta. She refused.

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