{"product_id":"coretta-my-life-my-love-my-legacy-paperback","title":"Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCoretta Scott King\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBarbara Reynolds\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe True Story of Coretta Scott King Told Fully for the First Time\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a\u003ci\u003e Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Book to Read \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003eA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e A \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \"New and Noteworthy\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Pick \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003eA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eRead It Forward\u003c\/i\u003e Favorite Read \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003eA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eParade \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine Pick\u003c\/b\u003e -\u003cb\u003e A \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \"\u003c\/i\u003eNotable African-American Titles\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e[\u003ci\u003eCoretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e] \"reveals never-before-told aspects of Mrs. King's life....We learn of the brilliant mind and courageous spirit behind the enigmatic figure\" (\u003ci\u003eEssence\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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 a U.S. national holiday in honor of her husband; championed women's, workers', and gay rights; and was a powerful international voice for nonviolence, freedom, and human dignity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Distinctly...particularly absorbing\" (Patricia J. Williams, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), Coretta's is a love story, a family saga, and the memoir of an extraordinary black woman in twentieth-century America--a brave leader who, in the face of terrorism and violent hatred, stood committed, proud, forgiving, nonviolent, and hopeful every day of her life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCoretta Scott King\u003c\/b\u003e was an American civil rights activist, international human rights champion, and author, the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. and a mother of four. Born in 1927 in Heiberger, Alabama, she died in 2006 in Rosarito Beach, Mexico. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eReverend Dr. Barbara Reynolds\u003c\/b\u003e is an ordained minister, a columnist, and the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eOut of Hell \u0026amp; Living Well: Healing from the Inside Out\u003c\/i\u003e. She was a longtime editorial board member of USA Today, won an SCLC Drum Major for Justice Award in 1987, and was inducted into the Board of Preachers at the twenty-ninth annual Martin Luther King Jr. College of Ministers and Laity at Morehouse College in 2014.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 20, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772561522976,"sku":"9781250159939","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8efa0c040bcb68982fc48865a64ea3b3.webp?v=1780408530","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/coretta-my-life-my-love-my-legacy-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}