Six months after arriving in Boston, she was introduced to a man named Martin.
At first, Coretta didn’t think much of Martin Luther King, Jr. He wasn’t her type, and he was awfully outspoken. On the other hand, he spun dreams of a wonderful future. Their dates led her to a church, to a concert, dancing, and eventually to marriage.
But being the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t always a happy life. Coretta worried about Martin constantly, though she was proud of him. Their work together on boycotts was making change, but there was always danger. She could do what she needed to do, though—as long as she had her music.
I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by “Women Who Broke the Rules: Coretta Scott King.”
So many biographies of King begin with her marriage to Martin, but author Kathleen Krull starts much earlier, putting an emphasis on Coretta Scott King’s lifelong love of music and her desire to have a career, despite that woman generally didn’t do that sort of thing then. That gives the story a tone of determination and quiet inspiration, a note that gets louder as the book progresses.
(“Women Who Broke the Rules: Coretta Scott King” by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Laura Freeman, c.2015, Bloomsbury, $16.99 / $19.99 Canada, 48 pages.)
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