![]() She joined the school’s chapter of the NAACP after battling with the school board over wanting to finish her teaching requirements be teaching in the local public school. She became the leading soprano in the school’s chorus, played trumpet and piano, and graduated valedictorian of her class.Ĭoretta then attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio where she studied music and also found purpose in politics. ![]() ![]() While in high school Coretta’s brain and voice began to shine. Fortunately for Coretta, her mother was the bus driver and was tasked with busing all the local black teens to school. Schools in the south were still segregated, and the closest black school was about 9 miles away. The accident caused some family drama and after a serious scolding from her mother, Coretta began to act more ladylike.Įducation was big in the Scott household. Coretta was strong for her age and enjoyed wrestling with the boys.īefore her teenage years, Coretta accidentally cut her cousin with an ax, after roughhousing with the boys. At the age of 10, she began working on the family farm picking cotton. Coretta’s mother and father came from humble beginnings, but her father instilled in her a passion for learning and hard work. Her grandmother was a former slave who acted as a midwife during her birth. ![]() The author, activist, civil rights leader, and singer was born in her parent’s home in Heiberger, Alabama on April 27th, 1927. ![]()
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