What did Martin Luther King Jr's wife do?

Answer 1

After graduation from Antioch College in Ohio, Coretta Scott King won a scholarship to the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston to study concert singing. It was in Boston that she met Martin Luther King, Jr. who was studying theology at Boston University. They were married in 1953, and after receiving her degree in violin and voice, they moved to Montgomery, Alabama in 1954. After completing his thesis, Martin received his PhD from Boston in 1955.

In Montgomery they immediately became involved in the civil rights movement; Martin was elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association which was instrumental in the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-1956. He founded the Southern Baptist Leadership Conference in 1957 and served as it's president until 1968. He also served in leadership roles in a number of other Baptist organizations and served on the boards of secular educational organizations. Needless to say, throughout these years, Coretta functioned in the role of the wife of civil rights leader and also worked with these organizations herself. In her free time, she raised her four children, and participated in demonstrations and marches, and she toured on civil rights missions with Reverend King. Throughout the 1960s, she was called upon to speak on civil rights herself.

Following the death of her husband in 1968, she established and built the The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change and published a biography called "My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr.". In 1995, after twenty seven years as director, she turned her position at the King Center over to her son Dexter Scott King. She continued working for the causes that she believed in until her death in 2006 at the age of 78, leaving a lifetime legacy of service to her community and to her country.

Answer 2

Martin wife was very shocked and devistated after martin"s death