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Up for sale "Civil Rights Leader" Coretta Scott King Hand Signed 3X5 Card Mounted To An 8X10 Board. This item is certified authentic Weeks Autographs and comes with their COA
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Coretta
Scott King (née Scott; April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an
American author, activist, civil
rights leader, and the wife of Martin
Luther King Jr. An active advocate for African-American
equality, she was a leader for the civil
rights movement in the 1960s. King was also a singer who civil rights work. King met her husband while attending graduate school in Boston. They both became increasingly
active in the American civil rights movement. King played a prominent role in
the years after her husband's
assassination in 1968 when she took on the leadership of the
struggle for racial equality herself and became active in the Women's Movement. King founded the King Center and sought to make
his birthday a national holiday. She finally succeeded when Ronald Reagan signed legislation
which established Martin Luther
King Jr. Day on November 2, 1983. She later broadened her scope to
include both advocacy for LGBT
rights and opposition to apartheid.
King became friends with many politicians before and after Martin Luther King's
death, including John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert F. Kennedy. Her telephone
conversation with John F. Kennedy during the 1960
presidential election has been credited by historians for
mobilizing African-American voters. In August 2005, King
suffered a stroke which paralyzed her right side and left her unable to speak;
five months later she died of respiratory failure due to complications from
ovarian cancer. Her funeral was attended by some 10,000 people, including four
of five living U.S. presidents. She was temporarily buried on the grounds of
the King Center until being interred next to her husband. She was inducted into
the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame,
the National Women's Hall of Fame,
and was the first African American to lie
in state at the Georgia
State Capitol. King has been referred to as "First Lady of the
Civil Rights Movement".