03656nam 22006611a 450 991082693350332120240516133327.00-8173-8612-2(CKB)3170000000046159(EBL)871351(OCoLC)780443461(SSID)ssj0000585486(PQKBManifestationID)11358419(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000585486(PQKBWorkID)10571746(PQKB)10010354(MiAaPQ)EBC871351(MdBmJHUP)muse27061(Au-PeEL)EBL871351(CaPaEBR)ebr10547402(EXLCZ)99317000000004615920120103d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDesert rose the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King /Edythe Scott Bagley with Joe Hilley ; afterword by Bernice A. King1st ed.Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20121 online resource (334 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-1765-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 theAfrican American women civil rights workersBiographyCivil rights workersUnited StatesBiographyAfrican American women political activistsBiographyAfrican American womenBiographyAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistory20th centuryPerry County (Ala.)BiographyAfrican American women civil rights workersCivil rights workersAfrican American women political activistsAfrican American womenAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistory323.092BBagley Edythe Scott1717209Hilley Joseph H1717210MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826933503321Desert rose4113165UNINA