why is corretta scott king a hero
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Coretta Scott King who was born April 27, 1927 to Obadiah and Bernice Scott. The family had owned a small farm in Marion, Alabama and Coretta also had three other brothers or sisters so life was not easy. As Coretta got older she started to go to school and she learned that blacks had to walk to school 6 miles, sunny or rainy, while whites rode the buses.
Coretta joined Lincoln High School in Alabama where she discovered that she wanted to be a musician. As she got a little older, Coretta graduated from Lincoln High School in 1945 and got got a scholarship to Antioch College in Yellow Springs. As bad as she wanted to leave Lincoln high school and get away from racial hostility she figured out that Antioch was just the same as Lincoln and she was the first black woman to get a major in elementary school education but there soon became a problem for Scott. She learned that she had to take a two year course and one year in Antioch private elementary school but besides that everything went good for her. Then discrimination made Scott think that she joined the NAACP on the college campus then for her ungraduate years Scott learned alot.
Later on Coretta had realized that she wanted to continue teaching at Antioch in her music degree but then she enrolled in the New England Conservatory in Boston where she graduated in 1954 where she met Dr. Martin Luther King jr. They married in 1953. Then her marrying a minster meant that she had to quit her work on music. So after that Coretta and Martin moved to Montgomery, Alabama where they started all their civil right movements. But soon Martin was assassinated and she took over all Martin's business then she and her three children went to march in his march and she later was active in the peace movements and in 1985 Coretta and three of her children were arrested at the South African embassy and she was later in the news again because she believed that Ray was not a true killer of Dr. King.
On January 30, 2004 Scott passed away in her sleep at 78 years old. She had been suffering from heart problems and the reason i chose King to be my hero was because she was CEO of the King Center and she showed that a woman could do anything she wanted.