Walking many miles to school in the dusty road, young Coretta knew, too well, the unfairness of life in the segregated south. A yearning for equality began to g

"The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 brought Dr. King, his wife, and their young family into national prominence. Since then the nation and the world have seen t

Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. While enrolled as one of the first b

Originally published: New York: Lodestar Books, an affiliate of Dutton Children's Books, 1994.

The wife of Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King was a civil rights leader in her own right, playing a prominent role in the African American struggle for