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The wife of Martin Luther King, Coretta as well as being an author was an activist and civil rights leader, helping in the leadership of the African - American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's. After the assassination of her husband in 1968 she played a more prominent part in the movement and became active in the Women's Movement and LGBT.Coretta became active after her experiences of racial discrimination at school, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) thrust her into her involvement of advocating for civil rights legislation.


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