"Civil Rights Leader" Coretta Scott King Hand Signed 3X5 Card COA For Sale

Up for sale "Civil Rights Leader" Coretta Scott King Hand Signed 3X5 Card Mounted To An 8X10 Board. This item is certified authentic Weeks Autographs and comes with their COA

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Coretta

Scott King (née Scott; April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an

American author, activist, civil

rights leader, and the wife of Martin

Luther King Jr. An active advocate for African-American

equality, she was a leader for the civil

rights movement in the 1960s. King was also a singer who civil rights work. King met her husband while attending graduate school in Boston. They both became increasingly

active in the American civil rights movement. King played a prominent role in

the years after her husband's

assassination in 1968 when she took on the leadership of the

struggle for racial equality herself and became active in the Women's Movement. King founded the King Center and sought to make

his birthday a national holiday. She finally succeeded when Ronald Reagan signed legislation

which established Martin Luther

King Jr. Day on November 2, 1983. She later broadened her scope to

include both advocacy for LGBT

rights and opposition to apartheid.

King became friends with many politicians before and after Martin Luther King's

death, including John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert F. Kennedy. Her telephone

conversation with John F. Kennedy during the 1960

presidential election has been credited by historians for

mobilizing African-American voters. In August 2005, King

suffered a stroke which paralyzed her right side and left her unable to speak;

five months later she died of respiratory failure due to complications from

ovarian cancer. Her funeral was attended by some 10,000 people, including four

of five living U.S. presidents. She was temporarily buried on the grounds of

the King Center until being interred next to her husband. She was inducted into

the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame,

the National Women's Hall of Fame,

and was the first African American to lie

in state at the Georgia

State Capitol. King has been referred to as "First Lady of the

Civil Rights Movement".