Perhaps one of Coretta Scott King’s most well-known achievements is her decades-long campaign to establish Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a national holiday. In 1983, after 15 years of tireless ...

A few months ago, another image of Mrs. King from the U.N. march was discovered on a contact sheet in The Times’s archive ...

Scott King saw the deficit partly as a result of who was doing the telling. At one of the first conferences of King scholars, ...

Coretta, a tape of King having an extramarital affair, as well as a note encouraging him to kill himself for the sake of the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed at ...

(AP Photo/John Bazemore, File) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King wave to crowd in street from ...

King’s words were as powerful as his deeds, and his moving and eloquent addresses, which gave hope to millions, continue to inspire people throughout the world. The legislation to recognize Martin ...

Next door to Ebenezer Baptist Church stands the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. It has even more exhibits, as well as the tombs of King and his wife, Coretta Scott King.

FILE – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King wave to crowd in street from center window of a third-floor walk-up apartment he rented on Chicago’s West Side, Jan. 26 ...