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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.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2012]
©2012

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 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  B KING    Check Shelf
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Description xii, 318 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography 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.
Subject King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006.
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 -- Influence.
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 -- Political and social views.
African American women civil rights workers -- Biography.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
African American women political activists -- Biography.
African American women -- Biography.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
Perry County (Ala.)
Added Author Hilley, Joseph H.
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