• CIVIL & WOMEN'S RIGHTS ACTIVIST
• Valedictorian of her high school class
• Studied music on a scholarship to Antioch College, where she also joined the NAACP
• Married Martin Luther King, Jr., insisting that the promise to "obey" her husband be removed from the vows
• Active leader of the Civil Rights Movement alongside her husband
• FIRST woman to deliver the Class Day address at Harvard
• FIRST woman to preach at London's St. Paul's Cathedral
• Acted as a delegate for the Women's Strike for Peace Conference in Geneva
• Founded the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (now known as the King Center)
• Spent 15 YEARS campaigning to make her husband's birthday a national holiday
• The prestigious Coretta Scott King Book Awards, given to Black authors and illustrators of children and young adult literature, were established by the American Library Association in her honor

Bibliography: Shen, Ann. Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2016. Print.
The Coretta Scott King Book Awards. American Library Association. http://www.ala.org/rt/emiert/cskbookawards

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