Opinion: Martin Luther King Jr.'s story was largely informed by his wife, Coretta Scott King [Opinion]
Monday the nation will mark its annual holiday to remember Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights icon whose elegant words remain as empowering as ever. Below, four writers put his legacy into their own words.After walking the campuses of Morehouse, Spelman College and Clark Atlanta University, we went to the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park.
Time and time again, Black women have endured and triumphed to make systemic change. Scott King and a host of other women have played pivotal roles in the civil rights movement, sometimes recognized, and often as women who have created the conditions upon which others can soar. And what is clear to me is that, in all such circumstances, these women are monumental leaders.
And Carlotta Walls LaNier, the youngest member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of nine Black students who desegregated the school systems in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, and created space for the inclusion of all people, regardless of race and other inequitable barriers.
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