Coretta Scott King

Signature Moves

• Witness Record - makes suppressed evidence around civil rights impossible to ignore.
• Coalition Bridge - connects peace & lgbtq+ equality to wider movement pressure.
• Rights Horizon - converts a local demand into a durable public standard.

Timeline

• 1927: Born.
• Sustained movement organizations after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, built the King Center, opposed apartheid and war, and publicly supported gay and lesbian rights.
• Long aftershock: Extending civil-rights institution building into peace, economic justice, and lgbtq+ equality remains active in the Rights Era.

Major Actions

• Sustained movement organizations after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, built the King Center, opposed apartheid and war, and publicly supported gay and lesbian rights.
• Expanded the public record around civil rights and peace & lgbtq+ equality.

Controversies

• Her independent activism is often compressed into widowhood; this card treats her institution building and coalition work as the central record.
• Eracii separates documented impact from sainthood: movements are collective, internally debated, and larger than any one card.

Card Notes

• Ratings are bounded Eracii mechanics, not objective measures of courage, suffering, or moral worth.
• Core arena read: civil rights and peace & lgbtq+ equality.
• The Rights Era treats liberation as collective work; each portrait represents a wider movement, not a lone-hero substitute for it.