Coretta Scott King

CHILDREN; KING, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006; WOMEN civil rights workers; AFRICAN Americans; AFRICAN American children; SEGREGATION in the United States; AFRICAN American students; AFRICAN American teenagers; TEENAGERS; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES & colleges; SPOUSES' legal relationship; KING, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; POWELL, Mary; MARRIAGE; SEGREGATION in education; CIVIL rights movements; AFRICAN American civil rights workers; WIDOWS; CIVIL rights; AFRICAN American families; KING, Dexter; CIVIL rights workers; HISTORICAL chronology; MY Life With Martin Luther King, Jr. (Book); BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEXES; CORETTA Scott King: Fighter for Justice (Book); BOOKS; RACISM; EQUALITY; TURK, Ruth, 1917-2005; AUTHORS; ASSASSINATION of John F. Kennedy, 1963

Activist; Speaker; Writer

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This chapter looks back at the childhood of civil rights activist Coretta Scott King. Born on April 27, 1927, in a small, all-African American community near the town of Heiberger, Alabama, Coretta Scott, called Corrie by her family, did not understand what segregation meant until she was nearly six years old. When she started school she was surprised to discover that the white children's school was in a big brick building separate from the African American children's. As she grew older she kept in mind what her mother told her, but she continued to be upset by the practices of segregation she observed happening all around her.