Author : Octavia B. Vivian
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 2006-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451415346
"The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 brought Dr. King, his wife, and their young family into national prominence. Since then the nation and the world have seen the beauty and composure of Coretta Scott King as she assumed her role in the tumult of the Civil Rights Movement, stepped forth boldly and bravely when Dr. King was assassinated, and then set out to speak and act on her own on behalf of civil rights, economic justice, and the King legacy."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Coretta Scott King
Publisher : Henry Holt
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1627795987
Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. While enrolled as one of the first black scholarship students recruited to Antioch College, she became politically and socially active and committed to the peace movement. As a graduate student at the New England Conservatory of Music, determined to pursue her own career as a concert singer, she met Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister insistent that his wife stay home with the children. But in love and devoted to shared Christian beliefs as well as shared racial and economic justice goals, she married Dr. King, and events promptly thrust her into a maelstrom of history throughout which she was a strategic partner, a standard bearer, and so much more. As a widow and single mother of four, she worked tirelessly to found and develop The King Center as a citadel for world peace, lobbied for fifteen years for the US national holiday in honor of her husband, championed for women's, workers' and gay rights and was a powerful international voice for nonviolence, freedom and human dignity.
Author : Angela Shelf Medearis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0147513634
Originally published: New York: Lodestar Books, an affiliate of Dutton Children's Books, 1994.
Author : Gail Herman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0451532627
The wife of Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King was a civil rights leader in her own right, playing a prominent role in the African American struggle for racial equality in the 1960s. Here's a gripping portrait of a smart, remarkable woman. Growing up in Alabama, Coretta Scott King graduated valedictorian from her high school before becoming one of the first African American students at Antioch College in Ohio. It was there that she became politically active, joining the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). After her marriage to Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta took part in the Civil Rights Movement. Following her husband's assassination in 1968, she assumed leadership of the movement. Later in life she was an advocate for the Women's Rights Movement, LGBT rights, and she worked to end apartheid in South Africa.
Author : Ntozake Shange
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0061253642
Walking many miles to school in the dusty road, young Coretta knew, too well, the unfairness of life in the segregated south. A yearning for equality began to grow. Together with Martin Luther King, Jr., she gave birth to a vision and a journey—with dreams of freedom for all. This extraordinary union of poetic text by Ntozake Shange and monumental artwork by Kadir Nelson captures the movement for civil rights in the United States and honors its most elegant inspiration, Coretta Scott.
Author : Edythe Scott Bagley
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0817317651
A detailed account of Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a 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.
Author : George E. Stanley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2008-12-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1439153450
Coretta Scott King is well known for being the wifeÊof Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and for her own civil rights and world peace activism. She also received many awards and honorary degrees. But before she did all of those impressive things, Coretta was a strong little girl who could outclimb anyone in her neighborhood, was very close to her dad, and had a beautiful singing voice! Read all about how Coretta Scott King learned that if you work hard enough, your dreams can come true.
Author : Kelly Starling Lyons
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 40,57 MB
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 059335351X
Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who spoke up and rose up against the odds--including Coretta Scott King! In this chapter book biography by award-winning author Kelly Starling Lyons, readers learn about the amazing life of Coretta Scott King--and how she persisted. Coretta Scott King is known for being the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but she was a civil rights activist and leader in her own right! She was a singer and an author too, and her work made a difference for Black Americans and for all women for decades to come. Complete with an introduction from Chelsea Clinton, black-and-white illustrations throughout, and a list of ways that readers can follow in Coretta Scott King's footsteps and make a difference! And don’t miss out on the rest of the books in the She Persisted series, featuring so many more women who persisted, including Oprah Winfrey, Harriet Tubman, Ruby Bridges, and more! Praise for She Persisted: Coretta Scott King: "This book profiles the uplifting voice of an activist worth recognizing in her own right [and] Lyons manages to weave in a healthy amount of emotion into this account . . . A brief but effective account of not-often-taught figure that would nicely complement curriculum units on the Civil Rights Movement." --School Library Journal
Author : Coretta Scott King
Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 1993
Category : African American civil rights workers
ISBN :
A revised, shortened edition of King's memoir of her life with Martin Luther King, Jr., with black-and-white photos.
Author : Melody S. Mis
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 2007-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1435847121
Coretta Scott King worked to keep alive the dream of equality that her husband, Martin Luther King Jr. stood for, and she fought for many other causes close to her heart. This book depicts her life and her passion for civil-rights causes.
