Mrs. King was born April 27, 1929, in Heiberger, Ala. and graduated from Lincoln High School in 1945. She enrolled at Antioch College in Ohio were she majored in education and music. She met Dr. King while studying at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Mass. They married in 1953 and moved to Montgomery, Ala., in 1954."
Mrs. King also has a book award named in her honor.
The CSK Award has grown since its inception in the late 1960s. At its humble inception at the May 1970 dinner gala of the New Jersey Library Association, Lillie Patterson was honored for her biography, Martin Luther King, Jr. Man of Peace. In 1972, CSK held its first breakfast at an ALA conference site (but without ALA recognition). Official affiliation with SRRT came in 1980 and in 1982 the American Library Association recognized the Coretta Scott King Award as an association award. Success of the CSK Task Force can be attributed to the work of tireless volunteers and visionary founders. For a more complete history consult two works: The Coretta Scott King Awards Book, From Vision to Reality Edited by Henrietta Smith, American Library Association, 1994 and The Coretta Scott King Awards Book, 1970-1999, Edited by Henrietta M. Smith, American Library Association, 1999
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