Coretta Scott King photos

Coretta Scott King, wife of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, shows her timeless beauty in a black and white portrait in 1950. (Photo by Photo12/UIG/Getty Images)

A high-spirited Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King, Jr. leave a Montgomery court house on March 23, 1956, after being sentenced to 386 days in jail for interfering with a business during the 1955 Mongomery Bus Boycott. After appealing, he served was only forced to serve 2 weeks in jail and brought national attineion to the their protest. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)

Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, enjoy spending quality time with their firstborn child, Yolanda King, in Montgomery, Alabama, in May, 1956. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Coretta Scott King, along with Martin Luther King Jr.'s father (L), mother (2nd-L) and sister (R), prepares to board a plane at JFK International Airport to attend Nobel Peace Prize presentation ceremony for her husband, Martin Luther King Jr., on December 10, 1964. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Coretta Scott King delivers a speech in support of voters rights at the "Stars for Freedom" rally while her husband, Martin Luther King Jr. (L) and singer/activist Harry Belafonte (R), both stand behind her in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 24, 1965. (Photo by Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images)

A somber Coretta Scott King sits beside Martin Luther King, Sr. (L), Alberta King (2nd-L) and daughter Bernice (R) during the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Atlanta, Georgia on April 9, 1968, following his tragic assassination. (Photo by New York Times Co./Getty Images)

Widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King still speaks out about equality in the nation after the assassination of her husband on the set of the CBS program "Face the Nation," on September 28, 1969. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)

Civil rights activist Coretta Scott King gives a speech in Washington, D.C. in hopes of having the government agree to a moratorium on peace in Vietman on October 21, 1969. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Years after the assassination of her husband Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King tells her story as the partner of the the man who led the Civil Rights Movement in her book "My Life With Martin Luther King Jr." on February 9, 1970. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Coretta Scott King stands at the podium beside Murray H. Finley during the Americans for Democratic Action Roosevelt-Humphrey Dinner on June 16, 1983, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. (Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage)

Musician Stevie Wonder poses with Coretta Scott King while attending the special program honoring King's late husband, entitled "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Celebration of Life," on January 8, 1984. (Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage)

As part of the opening ceremony of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta which has the Olympic flame passed from one person to the next, Coretta Scott King (L) lights the torch carried by her son Dexter Scott King (R) on July 19, 1996. (Photo by MICHEL GANGNE/AFP/Getty Images)

In response to a Memphis civil jury coming to the verdict that there was a conspiracy behind the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King speaks to the press beside her two sons, Martin III (L) and Dexter (C), to set the record straight in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 9, 1999. (Photo by Erik S. Lesser/Liaison Agency/Getty Images)

Following the public address in response to the verdict made by the Memphis civil jury, Coretta Scott King, along with her three children, Bernice (L), Dexter (2nd-R) and Dexter (R), lay roses and pay their respects to Martin Luther King, Jr. at his tombstone in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 9, 1999. (Photo by Erik S. Lesser/Liaison Agency/Getty Images)

U.S. Vice President Al Gore (L) sits with Coretta Scott King at the Ebeneezer Baptist Church on January 17, 2000 in Atlanta, Georgia during a ceremony for the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Photo by LUKE FRAZZA/AFP/Getty Images)

U.S. President George W. Bush (R) escorts Coretta Scott King throughout the White House after the signing of a proclomation celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on January 21, 2002 in Washington D.C. (Photo by TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Coretta Scott King (L) shakes hands with fellow civil rights activist Jesse Jackson (R) before U.S. Representative John Lewis (C) D-GA, during an event recognizing the 40th anniversary of the March on Washington led by the late Martin Luther King, Jr. on the steps of the Lincloln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 23, 2003. (Photo by PAUL J.RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)

U2 singer Bono (L) kisses Coretta Scott King on the cheek during the Salute to Greatness Awards dinner as part of the 36th King Holiday Observance presented by the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia on January 17, 2004. (Photo by Erik S. Lesser/Getty Images)

50 years after her own college graduation in 1954, Coretta Scott King applauds the graduates of her alma mater, New England Conservatory of Music, as the special guest commencement speaker in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 16, 2004. (Photo by Tom Herde/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Coretta Scott King stands beside singer Janet Jackson (R) at the 2005 Atlanta Heroes Awards on April 21, 2005. (Photo by R. Diamond/WireImage)

Two powerful women in the civil rights movement sit and laugh together, as Maya Angelou and Coretta Scott King attend the "Maya Angelou Life Mosaic" Collection by Hallmark in New York, New York. (Photo by KMazur/WireImage)

Coretta Scott King's glowing smile radiates for the camera during the AFI Tribute to David Wolper on May 2, 1990 at Lowe's Santa Monica Hotel in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Jim Smeal/WireImage)