1. By Anna Rogers

2. Coretta Scott King was born on April 27, 1927 in Heiberger, Alabama. She died in 2006 on January 30 th by ovarian cancer. She is best known for as wife of Dr. Marin Luther King. The two of them met in Boston and were married at 18 in June 1953. The family moved to Montgomery, Alabama and then to Atlanta.They had 4 children. Background Information

3. Coretta Scott King was important because she was a leading participant in the Civil Rights Movement. Mrs. King traveled through the world speaking of racial and economic justice, women's and children's right, religious freedom, the needs of the poor and homeless, full- employment, health car, education opportunities, ecological sanity, and other important matters.

4. When her husband died in 1968, Mrs. King spent a majority of her time developing programs and building the Atlanta-based Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change as a living memorial to her husband's life and dream. The King Center today is a 23 acre national historic park which includes his birth home. This park host over millions of visitors a year.

5. Academy of Achievement, (January 7, 2008). Academy of Achievement. Retrieved February 9, 2009, from Coretta Scott King Biography Web site: http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/kin1bio-1