Coretta Scott King, born in Heiberger in Perry County, Alabama, became a leading voice for civil rights and global human rights. She studied at Lincoln Normal School in Marion and later at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where she met Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. After his assassination in 1968, she carried forward the movement for nonviolence, founded the King Center in Atlanta, and championed the campaign to establish his birthday as a national holiday. When she died in 2006, she became the first Black American to lie in state at the Georgia State Capitol, a final recognition of her decades of leadership and advocacy.