Coretta Scott King
Remembering the birthday of Coretta Scott King born April 27, 1927. Coretta Scott graduated valedictorian from Lincoln Normal School in 1945, where she played trumpet and piano, sang in the chorus, and participated in school musicals and enrolled at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio during her senior year at Lincoln. She continued her education after Antioch at Boston’s New England Conservatory of Music earning a degree in voice and violin. It was in Boston that she met Martin Luther King Jr., who was working on his doctorate in theology at Boston University. See photo of Coretta and see/hear interview
