This is just one part of a truly epic book-length thread about Coretta Scott King you should read
So excited to share that The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks has been published in Japanese by Jimbun Shein Publisher translated by Prof. Fumiko Sakashita at Sophia University!
So excited to share that The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks has been published in Japanese by Jimbun Shein Publisher translated by Prof. Fumiko Sakashita at Sophia University!
I've just done a 50-day thread on Coretta Scott King--her life of activism which began long before she met MLK, the Kings' political partnership and her influence on Martin Luther King's thinking, politics and theology. Should I keep going?
Across her life, Coretta Scott King criticized the prioritization of war & colonialism over human rights. An early supporter of US divestment from South Africa, she traveled to South Africa in 1986, where she met Winnie Mandela who "acted with so much strength herself..But she also paid a price."
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Today would be Coretta Scott King’s 99th birthday. CSK was a lifelong freedom fighter & more of an activist than MLK when they met. As a student she’d supported the Progressive Party’s 3rd party challenge for president opposing US militarism, racism & economic inequality. We need to know her.
Alex K.
Sam Brody
Jeanne Theoharis
Too often we put the Kings' global vision into his last years, when she had an internationalist frame from the Progresssive Party. The Kings attended Nkrumah's inauguration in Ghana in March 1957 & on the way home spent the day with C.L.R. & Selma James in London discussing global Black struggle.
So excited to share that The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks has been published in Japanese by Jimbun Shein Publisher translated by Prof. Fumiko Sakashita at Sophia University!
