As Dr. King began to travel the world, speaking out against racism and later class-based oppression, we know Coretta as the wife who traveled with him.

NPR: Coretta Scott King, a Leader in Her Own Right

It reached right to the heart of the Empire, to India, a country she never visited but whose problems, of famine, poor sanitation, and oppression of the peasant class by unscrupulous landowners, were a major concern in the latter part of her life.

BBC: Florence Nightingale: Legend of the Lady with the Lamp