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View of civil rights activist Coretta Scott King and United States Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young on the set of the television mini series "King".Coretta Scott King (1927-2006), the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a Civil Rights activist who worked alongside her husband to promote nonviolent social change in race relations in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. After her husband's assassination, she founded the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Change in Atlanta in 1968.
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Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- Activists
- Atlanta
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Leaders
- Georgia
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927 2006
- Mayors
- Politicians