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 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.

Coretta Scott King was born on April 27, 1927 and died on Jan. 30, 2006. Here are some moments from her life. (RICH ADDICKS/AJC staff) ...

Obviously, Coretta Scott King's baby that she created in 1969, that there's a family feud that there is some effort to try to sell it to the Park Service to put it basically put Humpty Dumpty back ...

Coretta Scott King. January 31, 2006. AS A YOUNG GIRL growing up on her parents' farm and attending classes in a one-room school in Alabama in the 1930s, ...

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.

Long before she became the wife of an Atlanta gospel minister who changed a nation by teaching tolerance and social activism through nonviolent means, Coretta Scott King was a gifted woman in her ...

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 ...

Crowds of mourners have paid tribute to Coretta Scott King at the Georgia State House in Atlanta. The widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King, a powerful civil rights activist in her own right, will ...