- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (1 sound file (14 hr., 30 min.)) : digital
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Audiobooks.
- Autobiographies.
- Biography.
- Note
- Includes archival recordings of Coretta Scott King.
- Unabridged.
- Downloadable audio file.
- ISBN
- 9781427282842
- 1427282846
- 9781427282859
- 1427282854
- OCLC
- Author
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006, author.
- Title
My life, my love, my legacy / Coretta Scott King as told to the Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds.
- Publisher
New York : Macmillan Audio, [2017]
- Edition
Unabridged.
- Playing Time
143000
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Performer
Read by Phylicia Rashad and January LaVoy.
- Source of description
Hard copy version record.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Reynolds, Barbara A., author.
LaVoy, January, narrator.
Rashad, Phylicia, 1948- narrator.
OverDrive, Inc.
- Other Form:
Source record: King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006. My life, my love, my legacy. Unabridged. New York : Macmillan Audio, [2017] 1250122627 (OCoLC)965918628
- Other Standard Identifier
9781250122629
- Publisher No.
40c5qs Blackstone Audiobooks
- Branch Call Number
eNYPL Audio