Introduction
The Life of Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott Smith James was born on April 27, 1927, in Heiberger, Alabama, the third of four children of Obadiah and Bernice Scott. Her family lived on a farm that it had owned since the end of the American Civil War, as Southern society transitioned from a slavery economy to an interaction of free people. Her family was not very wealthy, but her father was the first black man in the neighborhood to purchase a truck. The children did have to pick cotton during the Great depression to help bring in money, but her father ...
