The Powerful Friendship of Civil Right Leaders Betty Shabazz & Coretta Scott King

Welcome to February! Red and Kelly are doing a month of relationship themed episodes and decided to bring it back to the beginning by focusing on female friendship. And who better to spotlight during February than the incredible and powerful friendship between Civil Rights leaders and activists Coretta Scott King and Betty Shabazz! And with a friendship scenario round of Do We Love This or That? the ladies are kicking off February with more than enough love to go around!

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Show Credits

Theme song: "Busy Old Sun" by Vaudeville 

Cover Art: Jenny Lam @jennylamalam

Editing: Kelly & Red  @kellylansing @missredventure

 

Sources

Biography "Coretta Scott King and Betty Shabazz Formed an Unbreakable Bond After Their Husbands' Tragic Deaths" by Rachel Chang https://www.biography.com/activists/betty-shabazz-coretta-scott-king-friendship

The King Center "About Mrs. Coretta Scott King" https://thekingcenter.org/about-tkc/about-mrs-king/ 
Urban Faith "Betty and Coretta: An Untold Story of Friendship and Activism" by Natasha S. Robinson https://urbanfaith.com/betty-and-coretta-an-untold-story-of-friendship-and-activism/ 
The Washington Post "Betty and Coretta: Debunking the drama of Lifetime's TV movie about the two widowed legends" https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/therootdc/post/betty-and-coretta-debunking-the-drama-in-lifetimes-tv-movie-about-the-two-widowed-legends/2013/02/01/1b7344f0-6c78-11e2-8740-9b58f43c191a_blog.html 
National Women's History Museum "Coretta Scott King" by Arlisha R. Norwood, NWHM Fellow https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/coretta-scott-king 

National Women's Hall of Fame "Coretta Scott King" https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/coretta-scott-king/#:~:text=King%20received%20over%2060%20honorary,and%20social%20action%20resonates%20today. 
The Garden Initiative for Black Women's Religious Activism "Betty Shabazz" https://blackwomensreligiousactivism.org/activists/betty-shabazz/ 
National Park Service "Dr. Betty Shabazz" https://www.nps.gov/people/shabazz.htm 
OK! Magazine "John Lithgow Reveals He Was Babysat By Coretta Scott King" by OK!. Staff https://okmagazine.com/videos/john-lithgow-reveals-babysat-coretta-scott-king/ 
Brittanica "Betty Shabazz" https://www.britannica.com/biography/Betty-Shabazz 
Biography "Betty Shabazz" By Biography.com Editors https://www.biography.com/activists/betty-shabazz 
Biography "Coretta Scott King" by Biography.com Editors https://www.biography.com/activists/coretta-scott-king 
ABC News "At 86, Andrew Young recalls horror of witnessing moment Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis" by Bill Hutchinson https://abcnews.go.com/US/86-andrew-young-recalls-horror-witnessing-moment-martin/story?id=54094604 
The Daily Beast "How Betty Shabazz Perservered After Her Husband, Malcolm X, Was Killed" by Ilyasah Shabazz https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-betty-shabazz-persevered-after-her-husband-malcolm-x-was-killed 
YouTube "Dr. Betty Shabazz Homegoing (6/29/97) | Partial" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh018_ahbno 

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