Desert rose
Subtitle: the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King
By: Edythe Scott Bagley with Joe Hilley ; [afterword by Bernice A. King]
Contributors: Hilley, Joseph H.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780817317652; 9780817386122
Subjects: African American women civil rights workers; African American women political activists; Civil rights; Influence; Political and social views; African American women; Civil rights workers; African Americans; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references  and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Soil; title: Slavery; title: Scotts and McMurrys; title: Perry County; title: pt. 2. Seed; title: Parents; title: A Black Man in a White Man's World; title: Opposition; title: pt. 3. Bud; title: Crossroads School; title: Lincoln School; title: Antioch College; title: Becoming Coretta; title: Progressive; title: Graduation; title: Boston; title: Martin; title: Marriage; title: pt. 4. Blossom; title: Montgomery; title: The Bus; title: Boycott; title: Christmas 1955; title: Bombing; title: Staying; title: Southern Christian Leadership Conference; title: Atlanta; title: Albany; title: Birmingham; title: Fire Hoses...and Dogs; title: Bombs; title: Washington, D.C.; title: Sixteenth Street Baptist Church; title: St. Augustine; title: Selma; title: Freedom Concerts; title: Watts; title: 1966; title: Memphis; title: pt. 5. Fruit; title: April 4, 1968; title: Friday; title: Memphis March; title: The Funeral; title: Finishing Martin's Business; title: 1969; title: Coretta's Agenda; title: Building the King Center; title: Sweet Auburn and the Historic Site; title: The United Nations and Apartheid; title: The Holiday; title: Coretta and Atlanta's Creative Community; title: Coretta; title: Afterword.