Desert Rose : The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King /
"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. Coretta Scott...
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
2012.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.