ePub The Essential Diaz: Selections from The Conquest of New Spain (Hackett Classics) by Bernal Diaz del Castillo; Ted Humphrey in History

Description

The Washington Post’s Books to Read in 2017The New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceUSA Today; “New and Noteworthy”Read it Forward; Favorite Reads of January 2017A Parade Magazine Pick"This book is distinctly Coretta's story . . . particularly absorbing. . . generous; in a manner that is unfashionable in our culture."―New York Times Book Review“Eloquent . . . inspirational"―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 children. But in love and devoted to shared Christian beliefs as well as shared racial and economic justice goals; she married Dr. King; and events promptly thrust her into a maelstrom of history throughout which she was a strategic partner; a standard bearer; and so much more.As a widow and single mother of four; she worked tirelessly to found and develop The King Center as a citadel for world peace; lobbied for fifteen years for the US national holiday in honor of her husband; championed for women's; workers’ and gay rights and was a powerful international voice for nonviolence; freedom and human dignity. Coretta’s is a love story; a family saga; and the memoir of an extraordinary black woman in twentieth-century America; a brave leader who; in the face of terrorism and violent hatred; stood committed; proud; forgiving; nonviolent; and hopeful every day of her life.