Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

that prompted nationwide demonstrations against South African racial policies. and Mrs King was unveiled in front of friends and family. Mrs.

King played a prominent role in the years after her husband's 1968 assassination when Coretta Scott King took on the leadership of the struggle for racial equality herself and became active in the Women's Movement and the LGBT rights movement. Coretta Scott King helped lead the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. The widow of Martin Luther King Jr.