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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826933503321

Autore

Bagley Edythe Scott

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2012

ISBN

0-8173-8612-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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