Coretta Scott King: A Biography

Coretta Scott was committed to social justice long before she met and married Martin Luther King, Jr. She shared in all the dangers that King's prominence in the civil rights movement brought, and she saw herself as full partner in the movement. Yet she generally remained in the background, supporting King's work and caring for their children, until his assassination transformed her into a movement leader in her own right: founder of the King Center, leader of a mass demonstration for a renewed national commitment to nonviolent social change, force behind the establishment of the national holiday bearing her husband's name. This book follows the trajectory of Coretta Scott King's tumultuous life at the heart of the most important American social movement of the 20th century.

Coretta Scott was committed to social justice long before she met and married Martin Luther King, Jr. She shared in all the dangers that King's prominence in the civil rights movement brought, and she saw herself as full partner in the movement. Yet she generally remained in the background, supporting King's work and caring for their children, until his assassination transformed her into a movement leader in her own right: founder of the King Center, leader of a mass demonstration for a renewed national commitment to nonviolent social change, force behind the establishment of the national holiday bearing her husband's name. This book follows the trajectory of Coretta Scott King's tumultuous life at the heart of the most important American social movement of the 20th century.

Author: Laura McCarty
Publisher: ABC-Clio, LLC
Published: 03/01/2009
Pages: 196
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780313349812

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2009 pg. 55

About the Author

LAURA T. McCARTY is vice president of the Georgia Humanities Council. She serves on the executive committee of the New Georgia Encyclopedia as well as the board of the Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries and the advisory committee for the Georgia Center for the Book.