1. Benedict (Viktor) Gombocz

2.  Coretta Scott was born on April 27, 1927, in Perry County, Alabama, into a
family who managed land since the Civil War.
 Coretta Scott’s parents, Obadiah and Bernice Scott, were truck farmers.
 Despite being financially more successful than most African Americans in
Alabama, life for them and their children was hard.
 Along with her mother and sister, Scott helped with the family garden
and crops, fed the chickens and hogs, and milked the cows.
 She also assisted the family revenue by hiring out to hoe and pick cotton.

3.  According to King, her “early schooling was affected by the system of
segregation”.
 Rain or shine, she walked six miles to and from school every day, while white
students were open to better facilities and teachers.
 After she finished six grades at the elementary school that “did not do much
to prepare” her, she enrolled in Lincoln High School in Marion, Alabama.
 Lincoln, a semiprivate American Missionary Association institute, “was as
good as any school, white or black, in the area,” she was quoted as saying.
 She acquired a passion in music at Lincoln; with motivation from her
instructors, she decided that music would be her career.

4.  Scott graduated as valedictorian of her high school class, in 1945, and obtained a
partial scholarship in Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
 Determined to evade southern racial aggression, Coretta Scott enrolled at
Antioch, only to find that bigotry and racial discrimination were well a problem
there, too.
 Being the first African American to study elementary education at Antioch caused
problems for her; this area required a two-year placement, with one year in the
Antioch private elementary school and the other in the Ohio public schools.
 Though the year spent at Antioch, where Scott taught music, went well, the
Yellow Springs School Board did not permit her to teach in its school system.
 The student body was interracial, but the faculty was all white.
 Provided the alternative of going to Xenia, Ohio, to teach in an all black school or
staying at the Antioch private school for another year, she chose the latter.

5.  Discrimination made Scott firm like never before; she joined the campus
chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP), a race relations commission and a civil freedoms commission.
 According to the young college undergraduate, “I was active on all of them.
From the first, I had been determined to get ahead, not just for myself, but to
do something for my people and for all people. I took to my heart the words
of Horace Mann, ‘Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for
humanity.’”

6.  In spite of her unlucky practice teaching knowledge, Scott’s undergraduate years
at Antioch were satisfying ones.
 Her time there reiterated and reinforced the value of providing and distributing
what had been inspired at her home and at Lincoln High School.
 She learned to struggle for brilliance; she recognized the school with
strengthening her belief “that individuals as well as society could move toward
the democratic ideal of brotherhood”.
 At Antioch, Scott became a strong African American woman, convinced that she
could contend with "all people of all racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds“ on
their own standards or on hers.
 Scott claimed that "the total experience of Antioch“ was a significant factor in
preparing her for the task as the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and for her
involvement in the Civil Rights movement.

7.  At Antioch, Coretta Scott recognized that she wanted to continue with
music and to build up her voice to its full potential.
 She subsequently enrolled in the New England Conservatory in Boston,
from where she graduated in 1954 with a bachelor’s degree in music.
 It was in Boston where she met Martin Luther King, Jr.
 They were married on June 18, 1953.
 Her decision to marry the 24-year-old reverend meant that she needed
to renounce her career as a performing concert artist.

8.  The Kings moved to Montgomery, Alabama in 1954, where Martin Luther
King, Jr. would pastor the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church; it was here where
Dr. and Mrs. King were recruited into the leadership of the Civil Rights
movement.
 Dr. King was recognized as the movement’s main leader, but Coretta Scott
King was also very much involved in it.
 She actively participated in the organizing and planning as well as in the
demonstrations and boycotts.
 Her life was likewise in danger.
 She gave “Freedom Funds” to raise finances for the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC) and for the association and delivered
speeches across the nation, often standing in for Dr. King.

9.  Even after Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4,
1968, Mrs. King remained active in the Civil Rights movement.
 Four days after her husband’s violent death, the sorrowful widow and
three of her four children returned to Memphis to direct the march
Martin had organized.
 In June 1968, she spoke at the Poor People’s Campaign in Washington,
D.C., a gathering that her husband had been excitedly planning before
his death; in May 1969, she led a protest of striking hospital employees in
Charleston, South Carolina.

10.  King, besides her role in the Civil Rights movement, was an active
participant in the peace movement, denouncing the Vietnam War as “the
most cruel and evil war in the history of mankind.”
 In 1961, as a representative from the Women’s Strike for Peace, she was
present at a 17-country disarmament conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
 King was later worried about full employment; she swore in Washington
in accord of the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Balanced
Growth Act of 1976, and in requesting equality and financial justice for
women.

11.  The receiver of a number of honorary degrees and awards, Coretta Scott King led
and co-led various national commissions and continued to serve on the board of
directors of the SCLC.
 She was also president of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change, in
Atlanta, Georgia, continuing to campaign for world peace, full employment, and
social justice.
 In 1995, the Kings’ second son, Dexter Scott King, took over as chairman and
CEO of the King Center.
 Coretta Scott King and Dexter Scott King requested a new trial for James Earl
Ray, the man convicted of killing Dr. King.
 The King family and novelist William F. Pepper have raised worries that a
government conspiracy was involved and that Ray did not act unassisted.
 Ray retained his innocence, but he died on April 23, 1998, before he could have
another trial.

12.  Coretta Scott King died late in the evening of January 30, 2006 at a treatment
center in the Oasis Hospital in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, where she undertook
holistic therapy for her stroke and advanced stage ovarian cancer; King was 78.
 The primary cause of her death is believed to be respiratory stoppage due to
difficulties from ovarian cancer.
 The treatment center at which she died was called the Hospital Santa Monica,
but it was certified as Clinica Santo Tomas.
 Newspaper intelligence proved that the clinic was not lawfully certified to
“perform surgery, take X-rays, perform laboratory work or run an internal
pharmacy, all of which it was doing.”
 It was also established, owned, and operated by San Diego inhabitant and highly
controversial alternative medicine figure Kurt Donsbach.
 In the days following Mrs. King’s passing, the Baja California, Mexico state
commissioner, Dr. Francisco Vera, closed down that clinic.

14.  “Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in
that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity,
their dignity and personhood.”
 “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures
the hated.”
 “If American women increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we
would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and
children.”
 “There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great
human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment
in history or nothing happens.”
 “When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel
there's no hope. But then, Easter comes.”

15.  My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr. (1969)
 The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1984)
 The Martin Luther King, Jr. Companion (1992)
 Diana Ross (1995)
 I Have A Dream (1997)

16.  http://www.answers.com/topic/coretta-scott-king
 http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/74494.Coret
ta_Scott_King