Obadiah scott biography

Coretta Scott was born in Heiberger, Alabama on April 27, 1927. Her father, Obadiah Scott, despite only having completed one year of high school, used his entrepreneurial skills to combine chicken farming with hauling lumber, and eventually owned his own sawmill and a grocery store.

Bernice Scott, Coretta’s mother, with the help of her children, took care of the family garden, hogs, chickens and cows. Realizing her fourth grade education left her disadvantaged, she instilled in her children the importance of education.

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“My early schooling was greatly affected by the system of segregation.

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These impressionable years are so important in laying a solid foundation. Our elementary school was at Heiberger, a crossroads village nearer than Marion, but still about three miles from home. Rain or shine, we walked there and back each day, and I remember that the buses carrying the white children to their school would rattle past us in a cloud of dust or spatter of mud