| Edition |
First edition. |
| Physical Description |
viii, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Contents |
We don't have time to cry -- A sense of belonging -- I have something to offer -- A brave soldier -- Time itself was ready -- The winds of change -- I will never turn back -- Pushed to the breaking point -- I've been called by God, too -- So evil only God could change it -- I have a dream -- Heartbreak knocked, faith answered -- Securing the right to vote was a blood covenant -- Moral concerns know no geographic boundary -- I don't want you to grieve for me -- With a prayer in my heart, I could greet the morning -- My fifth child -- We must learn to disagree without being disagreeable -- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere -- Happy birthday, Martin -- To live a normal life -- I will count it all joy -- Afterwords / by Andrew Young, Maya Angelou, Patricia Latimore, Congressman John Conyers, Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner, Myrlie Evers-Williams -- My mother, my mentor / by Dr. Berenice A. King -- The making of her memoir / by Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds. |
| Summary |
The life story of Coretta Scott King--wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and singular twentieth-century American civil rights activist--as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to one of her closest friends. |
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King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006.
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Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
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African American women -- Biography.
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Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
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Spouses of clergy -- United States -- Biography.
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Widows -- United States -- Biography.
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Baptist women -- United States -- Biography.
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Christian women -- United States -- Biography.
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| Alt Author |
Reynolds, Barbara A., author.
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