Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested for "loafing around in court" as his wife, Coretta, looks on. King was at the courthouse in Montgomery Alabama to support his friend and mentor, civil-rights leader Ralph David Abernathy. (Photo by Charles Moore, September 3, 1958.)
Michael Jackson with Coretta Scott King ( Martin Luther King's widow ) and Redd Foxx at the 6th NAACP Image Awards fund raising dinner held at the Hollywood Paladium, California, where the Jackson 5 received the NAACP Image Award for Best Singing Group on November 18th, 1972. #70s #motown #naacpimageawards
"Tuskegee University Archives recently released new recordings from the Tuskegee Civic Association records that feature prominent leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. These speeches address the Tuskegee community by civil rights leaders like John Lewis and Coretta Scott King, fill in historical gaps to illuminate the relationships between leaders and their constituents."
The Chapel Collection audio recordings–yes, audio is now on JSTOR!–are freely available for listening. Hear the recordings on JSTOR or learn more about the collection from JSTOR Daily.
Image credit: Tuskegee University Archives. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King. March 25, 1965.
Coretta Scott King talks with Bob Dylan after they were each given honorary degrees from Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Photo by William E. Sauro, 9 June 1970.