Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King

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The “prettiest girl in Boston” was a student at the New England Conservatory of Music when she went on a date with a cute young minister. Sparks flew, even though he freaked her out with his way-too-early marriage talk (“You do something else besides sing?” he recalled gushing in his memoir. “You’ve got a good mind! You’re everything I ever wanted; we ought to get married!”). Wed they did, in 1953 — and he went on to become, well, Martin Luther King, Jr. Behind the scenes, Coretta was just as powerful — and after King’s 1968 assassination, the mother of five became a leader not just in civil rights, but also the Women’s and LGBT rights movement. The true definition of a power couple.