<p><b>The True Story of Coretta Scott King Told Fully for the First Time</b> <p/><b>Named a<i> Washington Post</i> Book to Read </b>- <b>A</b><b><i> New York Times Book Review </i>Editors' Choice </b>-<b> A <i>USA Today</i></b><b> "New and Noteworthy"</b><b> Pick </b>- <b>A</b><b> <i>Read It Forward</i> Favorite Read </b>- <b>A</b><b> <i>Parade </i>Magazine Pick</b> -<b> A </b><i><b>Publishers Weekly</b></i><b><i> "</i>Notable African-American Titles"</b> <p/>[<i>Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy</i>] "reveals never-before-told aspects of Mrs. King's life....We learn of the brilliant mind and courageous spirit behind the enigmatic figure" (<i>Essence</i>). <p/>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. <p/>As a widow and single mother of