My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Coretta Scott
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1927–1968
- Setting: Boston, Massachusetts, and the American South
- Principal Characters: Coretta Scott King, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Bernice McMurry Scott, Obadiah Scott, Edythe Scott (Mrs. Arthur Bagley), Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr., Yolanda Denise (Yoki) King, Martin Luther King, III, Dexter King, Bernice Albertine (Bunny) King, Ralph David Abernathy
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Segregation or integration, Family or family life, Racism, Love or romance, Murder or homicide, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Music or musicians, Marriage, Ministry or ministers, Boston, Preaching, Funeral rites or ceremonies, Nobel Prizes
- Locales: South (U.S.), Boston, MA
Form and Content
My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. is more than Coretta Scott King’s autobiography, more even than the story of her marriage. In key respects, it is also a mirror of the African American experience in the twentieth century. In seventeen chapters, an epilogue, and several appendices, Mrs. King surveys her background in Marion, Alabama, her education at Antioch College (Ohio), and her fifteen-year marriage that ended tragically with the assassination of her famous husband on April 4, 1968. In that sense, her book is personal and traditionally...
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