Best of - Coretta Scott King: The Courage to Dream

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🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The United States seemed poised for a new day in 1963, when the March on Washington drew a quarter million people. And yet, throughout the intervening fifty-seven years, Martin Luther King Jr’s dream has remained elusive. George Floyd’s killing by police, two weeks ago, and the protests that have erupted in its wake, could not make that any clearer. Over the next several weeks, we will feature some of the extraordinary voices from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s that are in the audio archive of the Academy of Achievement. Today, we bring you our episode on Coretta Scott King. It originally posted in January of 2016. As Mrs. King says, she wasn’t just married to Martin Luther King Jr., she was married to the cause. Their partnership in life, in faith, and in the struggle for justice and human rights, changed the world. In this episode, Mrs. King describes her early aspirations in music, her courtship with Martin, and her courage in the face of violence. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2016-2020

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0:00.0	The March on Washington in 1963 drew a quarter of a million people and the United States
0:06.8	seemed poised for a new day.
0:09.6	And yet, throughout the intervening 57 years Martin Luther King Jr's dream has remained
0:16.4	elusive. George Floyd's killing by police two weeks ago and the protests
0:21.8	that have erupted in its wake throughout the country could not make that any
0:26.7	clear.
0:27.7	Over the next several weeks, we will feature some of the extraordinary voices from the Civil
0:32.3	Rights Movement of the 1960s that are in the
0:35.2	audio archive of the Academy of Achievement. Today we start with our episode on Coretta Scott King.
0:42.0	It originally posted in January of 2016.
0:46.0	Adam Aye, this child is gifted, and I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
0:55.0	If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity and you don't take it, you may never have another child.
1:01.0	It all was so clear. It was just like the picture started to form
1:05.2	itself. There was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth. Darkness over light,
1:12.3	birth over life. Every day I wake up and decide,
1:16.0	today I'm going to love my life.
1:19.0	Decide.
1:20.0	My advice is, if they're going to break your leg once when you go in that place stay out of there.
1:26.0	And then along come these differential experiences that you don't look for, you don't plan for, but boy you better not miss them.
1:36.0	Welcome to what it takes, a podcast about passion, vision, and perseverance from the Academy of Achievement. I'm Elin. vision and
1:45.0	I'm Alice Winkler and just a quick reminder our Twitter handle is what it takes now
1:50.0	When Coretta Scott was growing up on a farm on the outskirts of Marion, Alabama, she dreamed of a career in music.
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