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Desert rose : the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King / Edythe Scott Bagley with Joe Hilley ; afterword by Bernice A. King.
Van Pelt Library E185.97.K47 B34 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bagley, Edythe Scott.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006.
- King, Coretta Scott.
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006--Influence.
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006--Political and social views.
- African American women civil rights workers--Biography.
- African American women civil rights workers.
- African American women political activists.
- Political and social views.
- Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
- Civil rights workers.
- United States.
- African American women political activists--Biography.
- African American women--Biography.
- African American women.
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
- King, Martin Luther.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- History.
- Perry County (Ala.)--Biography.
- Perry County (Ala.).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 318 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- A detailed account of Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a devotion to the ideals of social equality and the values of education, as well as her later role as her husband's most trusted confidant and advisor.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. Soil
- Slavery
- Scotts and McMurrys
- Perry County
- pt. 2. Seed
- Parents
- A Black Man in a White Man's World
- Opposition
- pt. 3. Bud
- Crossroads School
- Lincoln School
- Antioch College
- Becoming Coretta
- Progressive
- Graduation
- Boston
- Martin
- Marriage
- pt. 4. Blossom
- Montgomery
- The Bus
- Boycott
- Christmas 1955
- Bombing
- Staying
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Atlanta
- Albany
- Birmingham
- Fire Hoses...and Dogs
- Bombs
- Washington, D.C.
- Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
- St. Augustine
- Selma
- Freedom Concerts
- Watts
- 1966
- Memphis
- pt. 5. Fruit
- April 4, 1968
- Friday
- Memphis March
- The Funeral
- Finishing Martin's Business
- 1969
- Coretta's Agenda
- Building the King Center
- Sweet Auburn and the Historic Site
- The United Nations and Apartheid
- The Holiday
- Coretta and Atlanta's Creative Community
- Coretta
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780817317652
- 0817317651
- 9780817386122
- 0817386122
- OCLC:
- 769430595
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