Coretta Scott King: Activist, Not Symbol

Hugh Taft-Morales, Leader

Philadelphia Ethical Society

In the shadow of her famous husband’s life and death, Coretta Scott King often felt unseen and unheard. But as her daughter Dr. Bernice King pointed out, “Before she was a King, my mother was a civil rights activist, a member of the NAACP and the Race Relations and Civil Liberties Committees at Antioch College.” After Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, Coretta Scott spent nearly four decades working for social justice. Hugh Taft-Morales explores how this remarkable person overcame the intersectional oppression experienced by women in leadership positions.