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My life, my love, my legacy [sound recording]
(based on Goodreads ratings)Audience All ages
Published [2017] by Macmillan Audio, New York
ISBN 9781250122629
Bib Id 894814
Copyright 2017
Edition Unabridged.
Description 12 audio discs (14.5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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ISBN
9781250122629 (12 compact discs) $40.00
1250122627
International Article Number
9781250122629 53999
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40c5qs
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SCD
Title
My life, my love, my legacy [sound recording]
Edition
Unabridged.
Publication Information
[2017] by Macmillan Audio, New York :
Copyright Date
℗2017
Description
12 audio discs (14.5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Note
Compact discs.
Includes archival recordings of Coretta Scott King.
Performers
Read by Phylicia Rashad and January LaVoy.
Summary
Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising black parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. One of the first black scholarship students recruited to Antioch College, a committed pacifist, and a civil rights activist, she was an avowed feminist--a graduate student determined to pursue her own career--when she met Martin Luther King, Jr. a Baptist minister insistent that his wife stay home with the children. In love with King, and devoted to shared Christian beliefs and racial justice goals, she married him, and events promptly thrust her into a maelstrom of history throughout which she was a strategic partner, a standard bearer, a marcher, a negotiator and a crucial fundraiser in support of world-changing achievements. As a widow and single mother of four, while butting heads with the all-male African American leadership of the times, she championed gay rights and AIDS awareness, founded the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, lobbied for fifteen years to help pass a bill establishing the US national holiday in honor of her slain husband, and was a powerful international presence, serving as a UN ambassador and playing a key role in Nelson Mandela's election. Coretta is a love story, a family saga and the memoir of an independent-minded black woman in twentieth-century America, a brave leader who stood committed, proud, forgiving, nonviolent and hopeful in the face of terrorism and violent hatred every single day of her life.
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