In Memory of
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King, widow of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is shown during an interview at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Social Change in Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 1975. (Joe Holloway, AP)
In Memory of
Coretta Scott King
King during an interview at the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in January 2004. At the time there was much discussion about which of the King children -- Yolanda, Martin, Dexter and Bernice -- would carry on their parents' work. (John Bazemore, AP)
In Memory of
Coretta Scott King
King embraces her husband during a news conference at Harlem Hospital in New York, September 1958, where he was recovering from a stab wound following an attack by a woman. At left is his mother, Alberta Williams King. (Tony Camerano, AP)
In Memory of
Coretta Scott King
King, left, and Maya Angelou meet reporters after visiting Betty Shabazz, at Jacobi Hospital in June 1997. Shabazz died later that month of burns from a fire set by her grandson. (Jon Levy, AFP/Getty Images)
In Memory of
Coretta Scott King
Amid marches and rallies urging apporval of the Voting Rights Act, King, left, and Juanita Abernathy, wife of the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, answer questions outside the Selma, Ala., jail in February 1965. At the cnter is the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth. (AP)
In Memory of
Coretta Scott King
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, King, former President Clinton and Rep. John Lewis walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., in March 2000. (Stephen Jaffe, AFP/Getty Images)
In Memory of
Coretta Scott King
With her husband in jail for 10 days for trying to organize a voter registration drive in Albany, Ga., King and her children pack a basket of food in August 1962. (AP)
In Memory of
Coretta Scott King
King leads a 'March on Memphis' in April 1968, five days after the assassination of her husband. On her right her daughter Yolanda walks with her brothers Martin and Dexter. On her left are Ralph Abernathy and Andrew Young. (AFP/Getty Images)
In Memory of
Coretta Scott King
King addresses the Democratic National Convention in 1980. (Dirck Halstead,Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
In Memory of
Coretta Scott King
Winnie Mandela, left, wife of then-jailed African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, with King in Soweto, South Africa in September 1986. (Greg English, AP)