After being accepted to Antioch, she applied for the Interracial Scholarship Fund for financial aid. Coretta Scott graduated valedictorian from Lincoln Normal School in 1945, where she played trumpet and piano, sang in the chorus, and participated in school musicals and enrolled at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio during her senior year at Lincoln. Scott directed a choir at her home church in North Perry Country.

In her last two years there, Scott became the leading soprano for the school's senior chorus. By the time Scott had entered the school, Lincoln had suspended tuition and charged only four dollars and fifty cents per year. The bus was driven by Coretta's mother Bernice, who bussed all the local black teenagers. The Scott children attended a one-roomelementary school 5 miles (8 km) from their home and were later bussed to Lincoln Normal School, which despite being 9 mi (14 km) from their home, was the closest black high school in Marion, Alabama, due to racial segregation in schools. Jeff Scott was a farmer and a prominent figure in the rural black religious community he was born to former slaves Willis and Delia Scott. Coretta's paternal grandparents were Cora (nÃ©e McLaughlin 1876 â 1920) and Jefferson F. As a self-taught reader with little formal education, he is noted for having inspired Coretta's passion for education. However, he displayed contempt for the notion of passing. Because of his diverse origins, Martin appeared to be white. Coretta's maternal grandfather, Martin, was born to a slave of Black Native American ancestry, and her white master who never acknowledged Martin as his son. Mollie was born a slave to plantation owners Jim Blackburn and Adeline (Blackburn) Smith. Her maternal grandparents were Mollie (nÃ©e Smith 1868 â d.) and Martin van Buren McMurry (1863â∱950) â both were of African American and Irish descent.

He also owned a lumber mill, which was burned down by white neighbors after Scott refused to lend his mill to a white male logger. Along with his wife, he ran a clothing shop far from their home and later opened a general store. Before starting his own businesses, he worked as a policeman. Obie, Coretta's father, was one of the first black people in their town to own a vehicle.

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