“Desert Rose is a must-read for anyone interested in learning about the first family of the Civil Rights Movement. This book offers an insightful look at the life of Coretta Scott King, and by default the life of Dr. King, from a unique and rare perspective. It provides an excellent ground-level view of African American life in Perry County and in Alabama’s Black Belt.”
—Hasan Kwame Jeffries, author of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt
“Coretta Scott King, like so many women during the Civil Rights Movement, has never gotten her just due other than being Mrs. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But her work and leadership was just as instrumental in advancing the cause of Black folk. Desert Rose puts the light on Coretta and her family, and allows us to revel in the courageous work of a remarkable family, and definitely a strong and fearless woman like Coretta Scott King.”
—Roland S. Martin, nationally syndicated columnist and author of Speak, Brother! A Black Man's View of America
Preface
I. Soil
1. Slavery
2. Scotts and McMurrys
3. Perry County
II. Seed
4. Parents
5. A Black Man in a White Man's World
6. Opposition
III. Bud
7. Crossroads School
8. Lincoln School
9. Antioch College
10. Becoming Coretta
11. Progressive
12. Graduation
13. Boston
14. Martin
15. Marriage
IV. Blossom
16. Montgomery
17. The Bus
18. Boycott
19. Christmas 1955
20. Bombing
21. Staying
22. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
23. Atlanta
24. Albany
25. Birmingham
26. Fire Hoses . . . and Dogs
27. Bombs
28. Washington, D.C.
29. Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
30. St. Augustine
31. Selma
32. Freedom Concerts
33. Watts
34. 1966
35. Memphis
V. Fruit
36. April 4, 1968
37. Friday
38. Memphis March
39. The Funeral
40. Finishing Martin's Business
41. 1969
42. Coretta's Agenda
43. Building the King Center
44. Sweet Auburn and the Historic Site
45. The United Nations and Apartheid
46. The Holiday
47. Coretta and Atlanta's Creative Community
48. Coretta
Afterword
Notes
Additional Reading
Works Cited
Index
Photographs follow page 000 and 000
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