Born on April 27, 1927, in Heiberger, Alabama, Coretta Scott King grew up in the rural South in a family that understood the struggles of discrimination and segregation firsthand. Despite the ...

Months later, as Hatch started to show Scott King draft chapters of the book, both Coretta and her older sister Edythe raised objections to the book’s tone and lack of attention to their family ...

A year after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the publishing company Holt, Rinehart and Winston released Coretta Scott King’s My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr. A senior editor at HRW ...