Their Story
Coretta Scott King earned a bachelor's degree in music and education from Antioch College and a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the New England Conservatory. She took part in civil rights organizing and used music and speaking engagements to support the movement. She also pursued peace activism, including service as a Women’s Strike for Peace delegate to the 1962 disarmament conference in Geneva. On June 26, 1968, she founded the organization as the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center. It was renamed the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in 1978. She also led efforts to establish the federal holiday honoring her husband. She continued to advocate for social justice and peace in her own right.