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... > contexts > population characteristics > socioeconomic factors > social change > activism and social justice > African American activism > Coretta Scott King
... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > global studies > global governance and world order > global religion > key people in global religion > Coretta Scott King
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Coretta Scott King  

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  • Though she was well known as the wife of Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King became a human rights activist and leader of international stature in her own right in the decades following her husband's assassination in 1968. Most notably, she founded and served as the first president and CEO of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, led the more than 15-year-long campaign that established Martin Luther King Jr. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; King, Coretta Scott (1927–2006)]

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