My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr

Front Cover
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969 - Biography & Autobiography - 372 pages
"This is the story of Martin and Coretta King- their courtship and marriage, their life together,their children. These 6 people-this loving family-lived at the center of the glorious and terrible history of their time and the element of classic tragedy makes this a story of overpowering drama. But it is more than that- more moving, more exciting, more real. It is the story of one man and one woman and their life together: the story of Martin and Coretta Scott King"--page 4 of cover.

From inside the book

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
20
Section 3
46
Copyright

18 other sections not shown

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

About the author (1969)

Writer and civil rights activist Coretta Scott King was born in Heiberger, Alabama, on April 27, 1927. She studied music at Antioch College and the New England Conservatory of Music. She married Martin Luther King, Jr. on June 18, 1953. Coretta Scott King taught and did fundraising for the civil rights movement. When her husband was killed in April, 1968, she took a more active role as a civil rights leader, beginning with her speech on Solidarity Day, June 19, 1968. King has devoted time to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, where she has served as president and chief executive officer. She also established the Coretta Scott King Award in conjunction with the American Library Association to honor outstanding and inspirational contributions by an African American author and an African American illustrator. She published her memoir, My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1969. She died on January 31, 2006 at the age of 78.

Bibliographic information