LEADER 03656nam 22006611a 450 001 9910826933503321 005 20240516133327.0 010 $a0-8173-8612-2 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046159 035 $a(EBL)871351 035 $a(OCoLC)780443461 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000585486 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11358419 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000585486 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10571746 035 $a(PQKB)10010354 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC871351 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27061 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL871351 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10547402 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046159 100 $a20120103d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDesert rose $ethe life and legacy of Coretta Scott King /$fEdythe Scott Bagley with Joe Hilley ; afterword by Bernice A. King 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (334 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-1765-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPt. 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. 330 $aDesert 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 606 $aAfrican American women civil rights workers$vBiography 606 $aCivil rights workers$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aAfrican American women political activists$vBiography 606 $aAfrican American women$vBiography 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aPerry County (Ala.)$vBiography 615 0$aAfrican American women civil rights workers 615 0$aCivil rights workers 615 0$aAfrican American women political activists 615 0$aAfrican American women 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory 676 $a323.092 676 $aB 700 $aBagley$b Edythe Scott$01717209 701 $aHilley$b Joseph H$01717210 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826933503321 996 $aDesert rose$94113165 997 $aUNINA