Coretta Scott King, the First Lady of the Civil Rights movement dies at the age of 78.

Born as Coretta Scott on April 27, 1927, in Perry County, Ala. Her father ran a country store. To help her family during the Depression, young Coretta picked cotton. Later, she worked as a waitress to earn her way through Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

The widow of Martin Luther King had suffered a serious stroke and heart attack last year. She passed away in her sleep overnight at an alternative medicine clinic in Mexico.

She worked to keep her husband's dream alive with a chin-held-high, grace, and serenity that made her a powerful symbol of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s creed of brotherhood and nonviolence.

Following her husband's assassination in 1968, King devoted her life to ensuring that his own legacy of human rights and equality lived on.

We at Ranch Cardoso would like to take this moment to honor the Leader and the First Lady of The Civil Rights Act.

Without their dream, our dreams would only be in our sleep.

Let us persevere in what is good and just and help with making the dream a reality. -RC

Quote by Mrs. King:
"Many despair at all the evil and unrest and disorder in the world today, but I see a new social order and I see the dawn of a new day."