Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King

Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott met in Boston in the early 1950s. King was pursuing a doctoral degree at Boston University and Scott was a student at the New England Conservatory of Music. The couple married on June 18, 1953, in Heiberger, Perry County, where Scott had been raised.

Portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, 1964
Courtesy of Library of Congress
Portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, 1964