Here's everything to know about the activist, author and civil rights leader. Related: Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. With 30 Fascinating Facts About the Civil Rights Icon Coretta Scott King ...

There were a number of books that had a profound impact on Dr. King. Obviously ... When they were courting in 1952, Coretta sent Martin Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy, with an inscription ...

One story that stuck with Hartfield takes place shortly after her grandmother, Thelma Shepherd Rone, arrived in the North. It ...

Julia Roberts told Gayle King about the gesture made by Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King for her parents in 1967 A segment of Julia Roberts' September interview with Gayle ...

Martin Luther King Jr. welcomed four children with wife Coretta Scott King before his death in 1968 Stephanie Kaloi is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

In this April 21, 1988, file photo, Coretta Scott King, widow of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ...