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Desert rose

by Edythe Scott Bagley · 2012

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Desert Rose details Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a profound devotion to the ideals of social equality and the values of education, as well as her later role as her husband's most trusted confidant and advisor.

Subject
biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Themes
African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of thiscivil rightscivil rightsMore like thisLess of thiswomenwomenMore like thisLess of thissocial issuessocial issuesMore like thisLess of this
Setting
20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 362 pages

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