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|  | | | Individual of the Week - Coreta Scott King
"When I went to the movies with other black children, we had to sit in
the balcony while the white kids got to sit in the better seats below.
We had to walk to school while the white children rode in school buses
paid for by our parents' taxes. Such messages, saying we were inferior,
were a daily part of our lives."
Young Coretta Scott's gift for music and
enthusiasm for education led her far beyond the segregated world of her
childhood, but when she met the young Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the
two resolved to return to the Deep South together and pursue the cause
of justice in her own home state of Alabama. The Montgomery bus boycott
thrust the young couple to the forefront of a revitalized civil rights
movement, even as it exposed their growing family to the retaliation of
those who opposed any change in the old system.
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