Coretta Scott King

DEARBORN, Mich., May 6, 2008 – Coretta Scott King and Dr. Dorothy Height were honored this evening as this year’s recipients of the Ford Freedom Award for their outstanding achievements at the 10th annual program.

The two were heralded at a dinner at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Ford’s partner in the program. Coretta Scott King, the “First Lady of the Civil Rights Movement,” received the Ford Freedom Award posthumously; and Dr. Dorothy Height, Chair and President Emerita of the National Council of Negro Women, was named the Ford Freedom Award Scholar.