My life, my love, my legacy / Coretta Scott King ; as told to the Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006, author.

Reynolds, Barbara A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006.

King, Coretta Scott.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.

King, Martin Luther.

Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.

Civil rights workers.

Christian women.

Baptist women.

United States.

African American women--Biography.

African American women.

Social reformers--United States--Biography.

Social reformers.

Spouses of clergy--United States--Biography.

Spouses of clergy.

Widows--United States--Biography.

Widows.

Baptist women--United States--Biography.

Christian women--United States--Biography.

Local Subjects:

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.

Christian women--United States--Biography.

African American women--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2017.

Summary:

"The life story of Coretta Scott King--wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and singular twentieth-century American civil rights activist--as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to one of her closest friends. Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising black parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. One of the first black scholarship students recruited to Antioch College, a committed pacifist, and a civil rights activist, she was an avowed feminist--a graduate student determined to pursue her own career--when she met Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister insistent that his wife stay home with the children. But in love and devoted to shared Christian beliefs and racial justice goals, she married King, and events promptly thrust her into a maelstrom of history throughout which she was a strategic partner, a standard bearer, a marcher, a negotiator, and a crucial fundraiser in support of world-changing achievements. As a widow and single mother of four, while butting heads with the all-male African American leadership of the times, she championed gay rights and AIDS awareness, founded the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, lobbied for fifteen years to help pass a bill establishing the US national holiday in honor of her slain husband, and was a powerful international presence, serving as a UN ambassador and playing a key role in Nelson Mandela's election. Coretta's is a love story, a family saga, and the memoir of an independent-minded black woman in twentieth-century America, a brave leader who stood committed, proud, forgiving, nonviolent, and hopeful in the face of terrorism and violent hatred every single day of her life."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

We don't have time to cry

A sense of belonging

I have something to offer

A brave soldier

Time itself was ready

The winds of change

I will never turn back

Pushed to the breaking point

I've been called by God, too

So evil only God could change it

I have a dream

Heartbreak knocked, faith answered

Securing the right to vote was a blood covenant

Moral concerns know no geographic boundary

I don't want you to grieve for me

With a prayer in my heart, I could greet the morning

My fifth child

We must learn to disagree without being disagreeable

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere

Happy birthday, Martin

Our children

I will count it all joy

Afterwords / by Andrew Young, Maya Angelou, Patricia Latimore, Congressman John Conyers, Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner, Myrlie Evers-Williams

My mother, my mentor / by Dr. Bernice A. King

The making of her memoir / by Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds.

ISBN:

9781627795982

1627795987

OCLC:

950430557