My Life, My Love, My Legacy

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2017. First ed., first printing (full number line). Octavo in gray boards, gilt titles to spine; dust jacket; 356 pp: photographs (b&w); 25 cm Fine in Fine dust jacket; pages crisp and clean; binding tight; dust jacket sharp and square. Hardcover. ISBN: 9781627795982

"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. But in love and devoted to shared Christian beliefs and racial justice goals, she married King, 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." --Publisher