Coretta Scott King, 1927-2006

Coretta Scott King was the widow of Martin Luther King Jr, the civil rights leader assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4 1968, and later became a public figure in her own right.



At the funeral in Atlanta on April 10, she asked that a tape recording of one of King's sermons should be played. According to one observer, as King's voice filled the church his widow "sat with her face a mask of controlled grief".

Coretta Scott King, A Life in Pictures.

Obituary from The Daily Telegraph.

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