Coretta Scott King

=== Johnson presidency ===
Most prominently, perhaps, she worked hard to pass the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]]. King spoke with [[Malcolm X]] days before his assassination. Malcolm told her that he was not in Alabama to make trouble for her husband, but instead to make white people have more appreciation for King's protests, seeing his alternative.<ref>{{cite book |title=Malcolm X: Rights Activist and Nation of Islam Leader |url=https://archive.org/details/malcolmxrightsac0000robi |url-access=registration |first=Tom |last=Robinson |page=[https://archive.org/details/malcolmxrightsac0000robi/page/54 54] |publisher=Abdo |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-61783-893-4 |access-date=November 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802073131/https://archive.org/details/malcolmxrightsac0000robi |archive-date=August 2, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> On March 26, 1965, King's father joined her and her husband for a [[Selma to Montgomery marches|march that would later end in Montgomery]]. Her father "caught a glimpse of America's true potential" and for the called it "the greatest day in the whole history of America" after seeing chanting for his daughter's husband by both Caucasians and African Americans.<ref>Bagley, p. 30.</ref>

Coretta Scott King criticized the sexism of the [[Civil Rights Movement]] in January 1966 in ''New Lady'' magazine, saying in part, "Not enough attention has been focused on the roles played by women in the struggle. By and large, men have formed the leadership in the [[civil rights]] struggle but&nbsp;... women have been the backbone of the whole civil rights movement."<ref name="books.google.com">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gwVbfvfYEZkC&q=rosa+parks+%22You've+said+enough%22&pg=PA408 |title=Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement |isbn=9780820338651 |access-date=May 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315091240/http://books.google.com/books?id=gwVbfvfYEZkC&pg=PA408&lpg=PA408&dq=rosa+parks+%22You've+said+enough%22&source=bl&ots=rOsSH_BAPw&sig=boOoZWgenR2iHSw50Ots6duyqcc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=aK2kUojKF6_gsATI5IH4Aw&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=rosa%20parks%20%22You've%20said%20enough%22&f=false |archive-date=March 15, 2015 |url-status=live |last1=Crosby |first1=Emilye |year=2011 |publisher=University of Georgia Press }}</ref> Martin Luther King Jr. himself limited Coretta's role in the movement, and expected her to be a housewife.<ref name="books.google.com"/> King participated in a Women Strike for Peace protest in January 1968, at the capital of Washington, D.C., with over five thousand women. In honor of the first woman elected to the House of Representatives, the group was called the [[Jeannette Rankin]] Brigade. Coretta co-chaired the Congress of Women conference with Pearl Willen and Mary Clarke.<ref>Bagley, p. 213.</ref> At some point in his activities, Martin suggested that the people working with him should organize a "sex party".<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=September 8, 2011 |title=Jacqueline Kennedy on Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Jacqueline_Kennedy/jacqueline-kennedys-feelings-martin-luther-king-jr-revealed/story?id=14478321 |access-date=2023-12-24 |website=[[ABC News]] |language=en}}</ref>