Coretta Scott King was born in a backwater of western Alabama. She married into a family that was a generation removed from middle Georgia backwaters. They didn't let her forget it, either. So long as she was Martin Luther King's wife, she remained in the background, a wife and mother. Only with his death could she become the widow. She made as much of it as she could.
I hadn't ever heard of this sort of tension within the King household, but I'm glad that she went on to become such an anazing activist. Blessings, Coretta.
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