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"Desert Rose details Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a profound devotion to the ideals of social equality and the values of education, as well as her later role as her husband's most trusted confidant and advisor. Coretta Scott King-- noted author, human rights activist, and wife and partner of famed Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr.-- grew up in the rural Alabama Black Belt...