The wife of Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King was a civil rights leader in her own right, playing a prominent role in the African American struggle for

"The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 brought Dr. King, his wife, and their young family into national prominence. Since then the nation and the world have seen t

Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. While enrolled as one of the first b

A detailed account of Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a devotion to the ideals of social equality and t

Originally published: New York: Lodestar Books, an affiliate of Dutton Children's Books, 1994.