Martin Luther King Jr. Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Marriage and family== [[File:Martin Luther, Coretta Scott and Yolanda Denise King, 1956.png|thumb|Martin Luther King Jr. with his wife, [[Coretta Scott King]], and daughter, [[Yolanda Denise King]], in 1956]] While studying at Boston University, he asked a friend from Atlanta named Mary Powell, a student at the [[New England Conservatory of Music]], if she knew any nice Southern girls. Powell spoke to fellow student [[Coretta Scott King|Coretta Scott]]; Scott was not interested in dating preachers but eventually agreed to allow King to telephone her based on Powell's description and vouching. On their first call, King told Scott, "I am like Napoleon at Waterloo before your charms," to which she replied, "You haven't even met me." King married Scott on June 18, 1953, on the lawn of her parents' house, in [[Heiberger, Alabama]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1509338/Coretta-Scott-King.html |title=Coretta Scott King |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=September 8, 2008 |date=February 1, 2006 |archive-date=November 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113011228/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1509338/Coretta-Scott-King.html |url-status=live}}</ref> They had four children: [[Yolanda King]] (1955β2007), [[Martin Luther King III]] (b. 1957), [[Dexter Scott King]] (1961β2024), and [[Bernice King]] (b. 1963).<ref name=fam>{{cite book |title= King Came Preaching: The Pulpit Power of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |page= [https://archive.org/details/kingcamepreachin0000warr/page/35 35] |last= Warren |first= Mervyn A. |isbn= 0-8308-2658-0 |year= 2001 |publisher= InterVarsity Press |url= https://archive.org/details/kingcamepreachin0000warr/page/35 }}</ref> King limited Coretta's role in the civil rights movement, expecting her to be a housewife and mother.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gwVbfvfYEZkC&pg=PA408|title=Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement|page=410|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-3865-1|year=2011|access-date=June 17, 2015|archive-date=July 27, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230727202902/https://books.google.com/books?id=gwVbfvfYEZkC&pg=PA408|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page