King’s daughter, Bernice King, addressed Major’s comments in a post Jan. 9, stating that her mother “wasn’t a prop.

He hasn’t put his life on the line for our collective freedoms. He is not Martin Luther King, Good is not Coretta Scott King, and that’s OK.” ...

Coretta Scott King was a young woman living in Boston when she met Martin Luther King. GBH took a closer look at her life as part of the unveiling of a monument commemorating the couple's meeting.

Coretta Scott King in the early 1950s. In 1951, two young Black women stood in line to enroll for courses at the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music.

Sixteen months later, on June 18, 1953, Coretta Scott and Martin Luther King Jr. were married on the lawn of her family’s home in Marion, Alabama.

For years, Clennon King stared at the two photos in front of him to imagine Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr. in Boston in the early 1950s. One of the black-and-white photos shows the ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s wife was an unsung civil rights activist with a deep passion and gift for music. “A lot of people don’t know me and think that I’m a cold, uncaring person. That I only became ...

As King marched for the cameras, lawmakers 100 miles away in Columbia were plotting their response to the hospital strike. They were determined to make sure Coretta Scott King was wasting her time.

Civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton shared for the first time on Monday the story of when Coretta Scott King harshly criticized him for his part in the deadly 1991 Crown Heights riots, JTA reported.

On April 8, 1968, Coretta Scott King wore a black lace headscarf as she led a march through downtown Memphis. Three of her four children were at her side. "I was impelled to come," she said at the ...

Coretta Scott King, center, accompanied by the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, her children, and singer Harry Belafonte, leads a march in Memphis to honor her husband who was assassinated four days earlier.