Joseph H Hilley
Author
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xii, 318 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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.