Desert rose : the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King / / Edythe Scott Bagley with Joe Hilley ; afterword by Bernice A. King
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| Autore: |
Bagley Edythe Scott
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| Titolo: |
Desert rose : the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King / / Edythe Scott Bagley with Joe Hilley ; afterword by Bernice A. King
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| Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 323.092 |
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| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Perry County (Ala.) Biography |
| Altri autori: |
HilleyJoseph H
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| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Desert rose |
| ISBN: | 0-8173-8612-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826933503321 |
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