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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.
Contributor:
Hilley, Joseph H.
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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