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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Coretta Scott King; Coretta Scott King; Coretta Scott King; Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Edythe Scott Bagley; Joseph H Hilley |
| ISBN: | 9780817317652 0817317651 9780817386122 0817386122 |
| OCLC Number: | 769430595 |
| Description: | xii, 318 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | Edythe Scott Bagley with Joe Hilley ; afterword by Bernice A. King. |
Abstract:
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.
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