Desert rose : the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King / Edythe Scott Bagley with Joe Hilley ; afterword by Bernice A. King.
| Author/creator | Bagley, Edythe Scott |
| Other author | Hilley, Joseph H. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2012. |
| Description | xii, 318 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local note | Little-305131061868% |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2011052587 |
| ISBN | 9780817317652 (trade cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0817317651 (trade cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780817386122 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 0817386122 (ebook) |