During a conference in 1969, two librarians, Glyndon Flynt Greer and Mabel McKissick, happened to meet at the booth of publisher John Carroll. The trio observed that no African-American author or ...

ATLANTA -- Coretta Scott King wore her grief with remarkable grace, and it made her one of the most influential figures in the struggle for civil rights. The first lady of the civil rights movement, ...

Coretta Scott King may be best known as the widow of the civil rights leader Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Yet in the four decades after Dr. King s assassination, she continued to strive toward ...

In the spring of 1969, Coretta Scott King stood in front of a packed church in Charleston, S.C., to address a group of striking hospital workers. She wore a simple white dress and layered strands of ...