Henrietta M. Smith
Henrietta M. Smith( born 1922), edited the Coretta Scott King Award Book:" From Vision to Reality"( Chicago: American Library Association, 1994) and The Coretta Scott King Award Book: 1970- 1999 sponsored by the American Library Association.
In 2008, she was selected as the recipient of the Association for Library Service to Children's( ALSC) Distinguished Service Award, which honors an individual ALSC member who has made significant contributions to library service to children and ALSC.
She is also the recipient of the 2011 Coretta Scott King- Virginia Hamilton Practitioner Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Dr. Smith was the first African- American professor at the University of South Florida, School of Information.
She also taught at Florida Atlantic University.
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Andrea Davis Pinkney is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of numerous books for children and young adults, including picture books, novels, works of historical fiction and nonfiction and Coretta Scott King Award winner who writes about African-American culture.
In addition to her work as an author, Andrea has had an illustrious career as a children’s book publisher and editor, including as founder of the "first African American children's book imprint at a major publishing company": Jump at the Sun at Hyperion Books for Children, the Disney Book Group (now Disney Publishing Worldwide).
She is also vice president and editor-at-large for Scholastic Trade Books.
Her books have won the Coretta Scott King Award and been a Coretta Scott King Honor book, have been ALA Notable Books five times, School Library Journal best books three times, New York Times Editor's Choice and Notable books, and more.
Andrea is a graduate of Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications and is a former member of the Newhouse School’s Board of Trustees.
She lives in New York City with her husband, award-winning illustrator Brian Pinkney, and their two children.
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King (née Scott; April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, civil rights leader, and the wife of
Martin Luther King Jr. An active advocate for African-American equality
, she was a leader for the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
King was also a singer who often incorporated music into her civil rights work.
King met her husband while attending graduate school in Boston.
They both became increasingly active in the American Civil Rights Movement.
King played a prominent role in the years after her husband's assassination in 1968 when she took on the leadership of the struggle for racial equality herself and became active in the Women's Movement.
King founded the King Center and sought to make his birthday a national holiday.
She finally succeeded when Ronald Reagan signed legislation which established Martin Luther King Jr. Day on November 2, 1983.
She later broadened her scope to include both advocacy for LGBT rights and opposition to apartheid.
King became friends with many politicians before and after Martin Luther King's death, including John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert F. Kennedy.
Her telephone conversation with John F. Kennedy during the 1960 presidential election has been credited by historians for mobilizing African-American voters.
In August 2005, King suffered a stroke which paralyzed her right side and left her unable to speak; five months later she died of respiratory failure due to complications from ovarian cancer.
Her funeral was attended by some 10,000 people, including four of five living US presidents.
She was temporarily buried on the grounds of the King Center until being interred next to her husband.
She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame and was the first African American to lie in the Georgia State Capitol.
King has been referred to as "First Lady of the Civil Rights Movement".
Suzan Johnson Cook
Suzan Denise Johnson Cook( born January 28, 1957) is a U.S. presidential advisor, pastor, theologian, author, activist, and academic who served as the United States Ambassador- at- Large for International Religious Freedom from April 2011 to October 2013.
She has served as a policy advisor to President Bill Clinton and later to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros, a dean and professor of communications at Harvard University, a professor of theology at New York Theological Seminary, a pastor at a number of churches, a television producer, and the author of nearly a dozen books.
She was the first female senior pastor in the 200- year history of the American Baptist Churches USA and a close friend of Coretta Scott King.
She is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Rita Williams-Garcia
Rita Williams- Garcia( born 1957) is an American writer of young- adult novels.
She won the 2011 Newbery Honor Award, Coretta Scott King Award, and Scott O' Dell Award for Historical Fiction for her book," One Crazy Summer".
She won the PEN/ Norma Klein Award.
Her 2013 book," P.S. Be Eleven", was a Junior Literary Guild selection, a" New York Times" Editors Choice Book, and won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2014.
In 2016 her book" Gone Crazy in Alabama" won the Coretta Scott King Award.
In 2017, her book" Clayton Byrd Has Gone Underground" is a finalist for the National Book Award for young people's literature.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi.
King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and in 1957 became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
With the SCLC, he led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama.
He helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous
"I Have a Dream" speech.
On October 14, 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance.
In 1965, he helped organize the Selma to Montgomery marches.
The following year, he and the SCLC took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing.
In his final years, he expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty and the Vietnam War.
He alienated many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled .
J. Edgar Hoover considered him a radical and made him an object of the FBI's COINTELPRO from 1963 on.
FBI agents investigated him for possible communist ties, recorded his extramarital liaisons and reported on them to government officials, and on one occasion mailed King a threatening anonymous letter, which he interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide.
In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee.
His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities.
Allegations that James Earl Ray, the man convicted of killing King, had been framed or acted in concert with government agents persisted for decades after the shooting.
Sentenced to 99 years in prison for King's murder, effectively a life sentence as Ray was 41 at the time of conviction, Ray served 29 years of his sentence and died from hepatitis in 1998 while in prison.
King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established as a holiday in numerous cities and states beginning in 1971; the holiday was enacted at the federal level by legislation signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986.
Hundreds of streets in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor, and a county in Washington was rededicated for him.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in 2011.
Dexter King
Dexter Scott King( born January 30, 1961) is the second son of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.
He is the brother of Martin Luther King III, Bernice King, and Yolanda King.
Moneta Sleet Jr.
Moneta J. Sleet Jr.( February 14, 1926 – September 30, 1996) was an American press photographer best known for his work as a staff photographer for" Ebony" magazine.
In 1969 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his photograph of Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow, at her husband's funeral.
Sleet was the first African- American man to win the Pulitzer, and the first African American to win the award for journalism.
He died of cancer in 1996 at the age of 70.
Claire Hartfield
Claire Hartfield( born July 3, 1957) is an American writer of history- inspired novels, best known for her Coretta Scott King Award- winning non-fiction novel
Hope Anita Smith
Hope Anita Smith is an American poet and author of children's books, best known for her Coretta Scott King Award- winning middle grade novel" Keeping the Night Watch."

Question: When did Coretta Scott King's husband die?
Answer: April 4, 1968