Coretta Scott King was more than Martin Luther King Jr.’s wife; she was a pillar of strength, a visionary, and a fearless advocate for justice in her own right.

In 1945, Coretta Scott King moved to Yellow Springs, Ohio — the same small town that John Lithgow and his family moved to around the same time.

Coretta’s steadfastness came out early. Seven weeks into the Montgomery bus boycott, on January 30, 1956, the Kings’ home was bombed. Both Coretta and their two-month-old baby, Yolanda, were home.

Coretta Scott King's daughter is firing back at people reducing her mother to a "prop." "My mother wasn't a prop," King posted on Tuesday. "She was a peace advocate before she met my father and ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., third from right and his wife, Coretta Scott King, lead off the final lap to the state Capitol at Montgomery, Ala., in this March 25, 1965, file photo. Thousands of ...

March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in ...