Desert rose [[electronic resource] ] : the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King / / Edythe Scott Bagley with Joe Hilley ; afterword by Bernice A. King

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788262103321
• Autore: Bagley Edythe Scott
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2012
• ISBN: 0-8173-8612-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (334 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): HilleyJoseph H
• Disciplina: 323.092; B
• Soggetti: African American women civil rights workers; Civil rights workers - United States; African American women political activists; African American women; African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century; Perry County (Ala.) Biography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Desert Rose details Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of ; proud, land-owning African Americans with a profound 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. Coretta Scott King-noted author, human rights activist, and wife and partner of famed Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr.-grew up in the rural Alabama Black Belt with her older sister, Edythe Scott Bagley. Bagley chronicles the sisters' early education together at the