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Coretta Scott King was born April 27th, 1927 in Alabama.  She was the third child of her parents, Obadiah King and Bernice McMurry King. She had two older sisters, Edythe and Eunice, and a younger brother, Obadiah Leonard. Coretta family owned a farm and was financially better place than other African American families in the neighborhood.

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While in school, she faced several hardships from the social system, which did not allow colored children to mingle with the whites. She attended the Lincoln Normal School'. The school was 14 km from her home and graduated at the top of her class in 1945. She was a talented singer and wanted to build a career in music. King had won a scholarship to study elementary education and music at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

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Coretta Scott King made a quote that said "I always believed that there was a purpose for my life, and that I had to seek that purpose, and that if I discovered that purpose, then I believed that I would be successful in what I was doing..." Moving to Boston changed Corettas whole life around in many ways. In 1952, her friend introduced her to Martin Luther King Jr. which was her future husband. He attended Boston University School of Theology. They both got married to each other on June 18th 1953 and it changed both of their lives forever.

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott  was a political and social protest starting in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation. The struggle lasted from December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person, to December 20, 1956 when a federal ruling took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional. On the night that Rosa Parks was arrested they knew they had to do something about it. So that upcoming Monday they asked every negro not to ride the bus under no circumstances. They protested until they were able to be equal on the buses or any other transportation.The Montgomery Bus Boycott a year long protest in Montgomery, Alabama, that shock the American Civil Rights Movement and led to a 1956 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States declaring segregated seating on buses unconstitutional.

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Coretta and Martin Luther King travels to India. Martin Luther King says in his autobiography that “Gandhi was the guiding light of our technique of nonviolent social change” during the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott in 1956 that ended segregation on that city’s buses, and throughout the years King and his wife led the American civil rights movement. Dr. King wanted to see for himself that Gandhi's nonviolent campaign to end British colonial rule.

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Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated at Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. King traveled  to Memphis before her husband's funeral, to march with the striking sanitation workers whose campaign for living wages her husband had championed before his murder. King soon became an icon for the image of strength that she maintained throughout this difficult time, and she was often compared to former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, who likewise had suffered in the public's eye the assassination of her husband. Coretta later found the Martin Luther king Jr. center for nonviolent social change and moved it closer to where he had grew up in Atlanta. April 8th, 1968 a few days after her husband assassination she lead a silent memorial march. Many whites in Memphis, calling him a communist and racial agitator, said they were glad he was dead. Coretta King and three of her children led some 20,000 marchers through the streets of Memphis on April 8, holding signs

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Coretta Scott King Publishes 'My Life With Martin Luther King Jr.
In the years immediately following her husband's death, King was involved in many things. For example, in 1969 in June Coretta Scott published her first biography, "My Life with Martin Luther King Jr.'
, which focused on their relationship with their family, civil rights, and activism. This book is a detailed story of the life they shared until the assassination of her husband.

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Coretta Scott King calls on Civil Rights Community to Join In Struggle Against Homophobia. Homophobia is the dislike of prejudice against homosexual people. She said the civil rights movement "thrives on unity and inclusion, not division and exclusion." Her husband's struggle with the gay rights movement, she said.

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James Earl Ray dies in prison. I say this because America will never have the benefit of Mr. Ray's trial, about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., as well as establish the facts concerning Mr. Ray's innocence. Mr. Ray was the one who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr.

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Coretta Scott King had already was suffering from a stroke and a mild heart attack in August 2005. She had then died Jan 30th, 2006 while being treated at the Hospital Santa Monica in Mexico City. Her funeral had about 115,000 people inside including President George W. Bush, President Kennedy, other civil rights activists, writers, celebrities, and more.