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Join the Inclusive Reading Club in reading Coretta Scott King’s My Life, My Love, My Legacy for the MLK Week 2024 Community Read.

"Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. While enrolled as one of the first black scholarship students recruited to Antioch College, she became politically and socially active and committed to the peace movement. As a graduate student at the New England Conservatory of Music, determined to pursue her own career as a concert singer, she met Martin Luther King, Jr., a Baptist minister insistant that his wife stay home with the children. But, in love and devoted to share Christian beliefs as well as shared racial and economic justice goals, she married Dr. King, and events promptly thrust her into a maelstrom of history throughout which she was a strategic partner, a standard-bearer, and so much more.

As a widow and single mother of four, she worked tirelessly to found and develop the King Center as a citadel for world peace; lobbied for fifteen years for a U.S. national holiday in honor of her husband; championed women's, workers', and gay rights; and was a powerful international voice for nonviolence, freedom, and human dignity.

Coretta's is a love story, a family saga, and the memoir of an extraordinary black woman in twentieth-century America -- a brave leader who in the face of terrorism and violent hatred, stood committed, proud, forgiving, non-violent, and hopeful every day of her life."

Facilitated by Rose Albert, Associate Director of the Office of Multicultural Programs and Dawn Emsellem, Director of McKillop Library.
Co-sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Programs, the McAuley Institute for Mercy Education, the Mercy Center for Spiritual Life, and McKillop Library.