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Desert rose : the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King
- Title
- Desert rose : the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King / Edythe Scott Bagley with Joe Hilley ; afterword by Bernice A. King.
- Author
- Bagley, Edythe Scott.
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2012.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hilley, Joseph H.
- Description
- xii, 318 p., [32] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- African American women > Biography
- Civil rights workers > United States > Biography
- African American women civil rights workers > Biography
- Black author
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 > Political and social views
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Perry County (Ala.) > Biography
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 > Influence
- African American women political activists > Biography
- African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 12-719
- ISBN
- 9780817317652 (trade cloth : alk. paper)
- 0817317651 (trade cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011052587
- OCLC
- 769430595
- Author
- Bagley, Edythe Scott.
- Title
- Desert rose : the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King / Edythe Scott Bagley with Joe Hilley ; afterword by Bernice A. King.
- Imprint
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Hilley, Joseph H.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 12-719