Through it all : reflections on my life, my family, and my faith / Christine King Farris
- Bib ID:
- 4587131
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Farris, Christine King
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Edition:
- 1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Atria Books, c2009
- xiii, 257 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781416548812
- 1416548815
- 9781416548829
- 1416548823
- Summary:
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"Christine King Farris, the only sister of Dr. King and his brother, A.D., is the surviving member of the family that together stood for the rights of all Americans at the forefront of the civil rights movement. They come from a long line of African Americans in the South who combined education and conviction not only to survive against the odds but to make life better for themselves and those around them, especially the poor. She offers a rare opportunity to learn more about the man behind the myth - as she describes, Martin Luther King was "no saint, ordained as such at birth. Instead, he was an average ordinary man, called by a God, in whom he had deep and abiding faith, to perform extraordinary deeds."" "The revelatory glimpses into her childhood with Dr. King are heartwarming. Her memories of, and insight into, her family's early years, including the brutal murder of their mother in church and the drowning of their youngest brother, are startling."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: SECTION ONE
- THE FORCES THAT SHAPED OUR LIVES:
- HOW WE CAME TO BE
- 1 The Williams and King Families:
- From Whence I Have Come 3
- 2 Big Sister Christine, ML, and AD 20
- 3 Spelman and Morehouse College Days 32
- 4 Graduate School 43
- 5 My First Real Job at W. H. Crogman 52
- 6 My College Teaching Career 55
- 7 Taking Spouses and Starting Families 58
- SECTION TWO
- ML LEADS A MOVEMENT THAT INSPIRES CHANGE
- ACROSS THE GLOBE
- 8 Watching ML Answer the Call to Destiny:
- Montgomery's Dexter Avenue Baptist Church 81
- 9 Birmingham: The Struggle Continues 90
- 1 0 The March on Washington: One of ML's Finest Hours 100
- 1 1 Travel to Norway and the Celebration of
- ML's Nobel Peace Prize 106
- 1 2 Selma and the Struggle for the Right to Vote 116
- SECTION THREE
- A SEASON OF GRIEF AND LOSS
- 1 3 Losing ML in Memphis 125
- 1 4 So Soon After Losing ML: My Brother AD Dies 140
- 1 5 Unspeakable Horror: Mother's Tragic Death at Ebenezer 145
- 1 6 Sudden Deaths of a Niece and a Nephew 159
- 17 Losing Daddy 161
- 1 8 My Dear Sister Coretta 176
- 1 9 Another Death from Out of the Blue:
- Yolanda Denise King 189
- SECTION FOUR
- WORKING THROUGH PAIN AND GRIEF AND
- THE JOURNEY TO FORGIVENESS
- 20 Work at the Martin Luther King, Jr.,
- Center for Nonviolent Social Change 201
- 2 1 Founding The Martin Luther King,Jr.,
- Child Development Center 210.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2009
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