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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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Chesterfield - Main Library | B KIN (Text) | 30493100631523 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Colleton - Main Library | B King, Coretta Scott (Text) | 3010277627 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Dorchester - Summerville Branch | B KING BAG (Text) | 30018004130387 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Florence - Johnsonville Branch | 92 King (Text) | 33172005214174 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Florence - Main Library | 92 King (Text) | 33172005133465 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Record details
- ISBN: 9780817317652
- ISBN: 0817317651
- Physical Description: xii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, [2012]
- Copyright: ©2012
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Slavery -- Scotts and McMurrys -- Perry County -- Parents -- A black man in a white man's world -- Opposition -- Crossroads School -- Lincoln School -- Antioch College -- Becoming Coretta -- Progressive -- Graduation -- Boston -- Martin -- Marriage -- 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 -- 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. |
| Summary, etc.: | 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. |
