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"book is distinctly Coretta's story . . . particularly absorbing. . . generous?? in a manner that is unfashionable in our culture."b>??New York Times Book Review
??Eloquent . . . inspirational"b>USA Today
The life story of Coretta Scott King??wife of Martin Luther King Jr.?? founder of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (The King Center)?? and singular twentieth-century American civil and human rights activist??as told fully for the first time?? toward the end of her life?? to Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds.
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 c