My Life with Martin Luther, Jr.
Coretta Scott King To Libby Holman
King, Coretta Scott. My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
Thick 8vo.; white cloth; black and white photographic dust-jacket; fine.
First edition of Coretta Scott King’s memoir of her life with her husband. A heartfelt presentation copy, inscribed to jazz singer Libby Holman and her husband: For Libby and Louis With love and deepest gratitude for your friendship, your concern, your love and your devotion to the ideals for which Martin worked and gave his life......May you find continued fulfillment as you share your lives together. Coretta.
Coretta Scott King’s memoir was published just one year after Martin’s assassination on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. It documents the Kings’ early courtship, their religious calling, and their increasing involvement in the non-violent civil rights movement. The specifics of the friendship between Mrs. King and Libby Holman, flapper, singer, and social activist, remains unrecorded, but one can surmise that they were drawn together by their many mutual friends in the entertainment industry and by Holman’s connections in the black music world. (An outrageous figure, Holman was widely known for her liaisons with black entertainers, both male and female, and for her leftist-Communist leanings.) My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr., remains Mrs. King’s only book: it stands, unequivocally, as one of the seminal texts of the early modern struggle for equal rights for black Americans.
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