Last updated on:
2/27/2008 |
Author: ProCon.org
Coretta Scott King Biography
- Title:
- Founding President, Chair, and Chief Executive Officer of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Is Sexual Orientation Determined at Birth?"
- Reasoning:
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No position found as of Mar. 2004
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Four days after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., she led a march of fifty thousand people through the streets of Memphis, and later that year [1968] she took his place in the Poor People’s March to Washington, 1968
- Delegate at the Disarmament Conference in Geneva, on behalf of the Women’s Strike for Peace, 1962
- Honorary doctorates from over 40 colleges and universities
- Education:
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- New England Conservatory of Music, Boston Mass, 1954
- Antioch College, Ohio, 1951
- Lincoln High School, Marion, Alabama, 1945
- Other:
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- June 18, 1953 married Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.