Coretta cott King was born April 27 1927 in Alabama. Her parents owned a farm and during the great depression she helped to pick cotton. He owned a barber shop and a lumber mill. She attended Antioch College and then won a scholarship to The New England Conservatory of Music. She married Martin Luther King in 1953. She had a large part in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's and 60's and continued to fight for civil rights after Martin's death and even up until her own in the the ear 2006.
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