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Uffelman, Minoa D

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Encyclopedia article about Coretta Scott King, most widely known as the wife and widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who carried on his vision of nonviolent protest to effect social change after his death in 1968. She founded the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change that year and later opposed apartheid in South Africa and participated in other human rights struggles.The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
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Keywords

  1. African American Civic Leaders
  2. African American Civil Rights Workers
  3. African American Singers
  4. African American Social Reformers
  5. African American Women
  6. African American Women Civic Leaders
  7. African American Women Civil Rights Workers
  8. African American Women Singers
  9. African American Women Social Reformers
  10. African Americans
  11. Alabama
  12. Anti Apartheid Activists
  13. Anti Apartheid Movements
  14. Assassination
  15. Atlanta
  16. Awards
  17. Bombings
  18. Boston
  19. Boycotts
  20. Buses
  21. Civic Leaders
  22. Civil Disobedience
  23. Civil Rights
  24. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  25. Civil Rights Movements
  26. Civil Rights Workers
  27. Concerts
  28. Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (Montgomery, Ala.)
  29. Disarmament
  30. Discrimination
  31. Dynamite
  32. Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
  33. Education
  34. Education (Graduate)
  35. Equality
  36. Fairness
  37. Fund Raising
  38. Georgia
  39. Government
  40. Graduate Work
  41. History
  42. Holidays
  43. Investigation
  44. Justice
  45. Liberty
  46. March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom, Washington, D.C., 1963
  47. Marion
  48. Martin Luther King, Jr. Center For Nonviolent Social Change
  49. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day
  50. Mass Meetings
  51. Massachusetts
  52. Memphis
  53. Montgomery
  54. Montgomery (Ala.)
  55. Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955 1956
  56. Montgomery Improvement Association
  57. Music
  58. New Birth Missionary Baptist Church (Lithonia, Ga.)
  59. New England Conservatory Of Music
  60. Nobel Prize Winners
  61. Nobel Prizes
  62. Nonviolence
  63. Ohio
  64. Passive Resistance
  65. Peace
  66. Politics And Government
  67. Poor People's Campaign
  68. Protest Marches
  69. Race Discrimination
  70. Race Relation
  71. Race Relations
  72. Sanitation
  73. Sanitation Workers
  74. Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968
  75. Segregation
  76. Segregation In Transportation
  77. Singers
  78. Social Justice
  79. Social Reformers
  80. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  81. Southern States
  82. Spouses Of Clergy
  83. Strikes And Lockouts
  84. Study And Teaching (Graduate)
  85. Tennessee
  86. United States
  87. Universities
  88. Universities And Colleges
  89. Wages
  90. Washington (D.C.)
  91. Women
  92. Women Civic Leaders
  93. Women Civil Rights Workers
  94. Women Social Reformers
  95. Yellow Springs

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