Coretta Scott King

=== Peacemaking ===
Coretta Scott King was a long-time advocate for [[world peace]]. Author [[Michael Eric Dyson]] has called her "an earlier and more devoted pacifist than her husband."<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F7ljj_iyQcwC&q=%22committee+for+a+sane+nuclear+policy%22+%22coretta+scott+king%22&pg=PA64 |title=I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr – Michael Eric Dyson |isbn=9780684867762 |access-date=May 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019043605/https://books.google.com/books?id=F7ljj_iyQcwC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=%22committee+for+a+sane+nuclear+policy%22+%22coretta+scott+king%22&source=bl&ots=afCa0mVk6w&sig=Q6iPfLWboCLlKlRk0Xb7wUMmUsg&hl=en&ei=Dog3TZjdCobWgQfN8YmcCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=%22committee%20for%20a%20sane%20nuclear%20policy%22%20%22coretta%20scott%20king%22&f=false |archive-date=October 19, 2015 |url-status=live |last1=Dyson |first1=Michael Eric |last2=Jagerman |first2=David L. |year=2000 |publisher=Simon and Schuster }}</ref> Although King would object to the term "[[pacifism]]", she was an advocate of non-violent direct action to achieve social change. In 1957, King was one of the founders of The Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (now called [[Peace Action]]),<ref>{{cite web |author=Minoa D. Uffelman, Austin Peay State University |url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1489 |title=Coretta Scott King |website=[[Encyclopedia of Alabama]] |access-date=May 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123155437/http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1489 |archive-date=January 23, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> and she spoke in San Francisco while her husband spoke in New York at the major anti-Vietnam war march on April 15, 1967, organized by the [[Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam]].

King was vocal in her opposition to [[capital punishment]] and the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]].<ref name=HuffPo>{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/19/jeh-johnson-mlk-war-dream_n_811213.html |title=Lawmakers Press Pentagon Official on MLK War Claim |website=[[The Huffington Post]] |date=January 19, 2011 |access-date=May 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518092206/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/19/jeh-johnson-mlk-war-dream_n_811213.html |archive-date=May 18, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>