Love story of Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King began in Boston
BOSTON (WCVB) As the country celebrates the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the long holiday weekend, historians are reflecting on the years he and his wife, Coretta Scott King, spent in the city of Boston.
Dr. King served as an assistant minister at the Twelfth Baptist Church in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood from 1951 to 1954 while he was pursuing his Ph.D at Boston University’s School of Theology.
Coretta Scott King was studying at the New England Conservatory of Music when she met her future husband on a blind date in 1951. The pair quickly fell in love and were married in 1953.