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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 Visualizza persona
Titolo: Desert rose : the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King / / Edythe Scott Bagley with Joe Hilley ; afterword by Bernice A. King Visualizza cluster
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  
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8173-8612-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826933503321
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