Word: coretta
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...Boston interests were not exclusively devoted to Theologians Tillich and Wieman. He had met Coretta Scott, a pretty and talented soprano who was studying at the New England Conservatory of Music. Their early dates were less than completely successful. "The fact that he was a minister made me shy away," recalls Coretta. "I had an awful stereotype in my mind." The suitor broke the stereotype: in June 1953, Coretta and King were married on the front lawn of her home in Marion, Ala. Just 15 months later they arrived in Montgomery to take up full-time pastoral duties...
...mettle was soon tested. At 9:15 one night a year ago, King was speaking at a mass meeting; Coretta King was talking to a friend in the living room of the parsonage at 309 South Jackson Street. Coretta heard a thud on the porch and thought it was a brick, nothing particularly frightening around the King home during that period. She and the friend moved to a back room to continue their conversation-and a dynamite bomb went off, filling the vacant living room with a hail of broken glass...
...refused to let him drive or walk alone. The Kings moved most of their furniture into back rooms, leaving the living room virtually bare. King briefly considered arming himself, but decided against it ("As the leader of a nonviolent movement, I'd look pretty bad carrying a gun"). Coretta King took their infant daughter to Atlanta, but soon returned. "When I'm away from this," she says, "I get depressed. I feel completely helpless...