"When I went to the movies with other black children, we had to sit in the balcony while the white kids got to sit in the better seats below. We had to walk to school while the white children rode in school buses paid for by our parents' taxes. Such messages, saying we were inferior, were a daily part of our lives." Young Coretta Scott's gift for music and enthusiasm for education led her far beyond the segregated world of her childhood, but when she met the young Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,...

"When I went to the movies with other black children, we had to sit in the balcony while the white kids got to sit in the better seats below. We had to walk to school while the white children rode in school buses paid for by our parents' taxes. Such messages, saying we were inferior, were a daily part of our lives." Young Coretta Scott's gift for music and enthusiasm for education led her far beyond the segregated world of her childhood, but when she met the young Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,...

Young Coretta Scott's gift for music and enthusiasm for education led her far beyond the segregated world of her childhood, but when she met the young Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the two resolved to return to the Deep South together and pursue the cause of justice in her own home state of Alabama. The Montgomery bus boycott thrust the young couple to the forefront of a revitalized civil rights movement, even as it exposed their growing family to the retaliation of those who opposed any...

In this podcast, recorded at the Academy of Achievement's 1997 program in Baltimore, Maryland, Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., addresses the student delegates after a screening of Dr. King's historic 1963 speech at the Lincoln Memorial, "I Have a Dream." She recalls her life with Dr. King in Montgomery Alabama at the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement, and relates how she found purpose in life. Citing her experience and Dr. King's encourages the young...

In this podcast, recorded at the Academy of Achievement's 1997 program in Baltimore, Maryland, Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., addresses the student delegates after a screening of Dr. King's historic 1963 speech at the Lincoln Memorial, "I Have a Dream." She recalls her life with Dr. King in Montgomery Alabama at the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement, and relates how she found purpose in life. Citing her experience and Dr. King's encourages the young...