A groundbreaking portrait of Coretta Scott King, whose brilliant activism and extraordinary life has been obscured in popular memory—until nowCoretta Scott King is one of the most memorialized yet misunderstood figures in the American civil rights movement pantheon, remembered as beautiful, respectable, and endlessly supportive of her famous husband. We don’t know her at all. Scott King was a visionary activist in her own right. More of an activist than King when they met, Scott King led her husband to live his faith through social justice, fought throughout her life against the triple evils of poverty, racism, and militarism, and led the charge inside mainstream civil rights organizations for LGBTQ rights. The Kings’ marriage was a political partnership that directed the course of the civil rights struggle. After Dr. King’s death, her activism in support of global justice and racial-economic justice continued for decades.Edited by the New York Times–bestselling author Jeanne Theoharis and accomplished historian Traci Parker, and featuring contributions from leading civil rights movement historians, this collective biography shows that it is high time we know the real Coretta Scott King, lifelong freedom fighter and powerful force in American history.

In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labor formation. Built on the goals, organization, and momentum of earlier struggles for justice, the department store movement channeled the power of store workers and consumers to promote black freedom in the mid-twentieth century. Sponsoring lunch counter sit-ins and protests in the 1950s and 1960s, and challenging discrimination in the courts in the 1970s, this movement ended in the early 1980s with the conclusion of the Sears, Roebuck, and Co. affirmative action cases and the transformation and consolidation of American department stores. In documenting the experiences of African American workers and consumers during this era, Parker highlights the department store as a key site for the inception of a modern black middle class, and demonstrates the ways that both work and consumption were battlegrounds for civil rights.

In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labor formation. Built on the goals, organization, and momentum of earlier struggles for justice, the department store movement channeled the power of store workers and consumers to promote black freedom in the mid-twentieth century. Sponsoring lunch counter sit-ins and protests in the 1950s and 1960s, and challenging discrimination in the courts in the 1970s, this movement ended in the early 1980s with the conclusion of the Sears, Roebuck, and Co. affirmative action cases and the transformation and consolidation of American department stores. In documenting the experiences of African American workers and consumers during this era, Parker highlights the department store as a key site for the inception of a modern black middle class, and demonstrates the ways that both work and consumption were battlegrounds for civil rights.

A groundbreaking portrait of Coretta Scott King, whose brilliant activism and extraordinary life has been obscured in popular memory—until nowCoretta Scott King is one of the most memorialized yet misunderstood figures in the American civil rights movement pantheon, remembered as beautiful, respectable, and endlessly supportive of her famous husband. We don’t know her at all. Scott King was a visionary activist in her own right. More of an activist than King when they met, Scott King led her husband to live his faith through social justice, fought throughout her life against the triple evils of poverty, racism, and militarism, and led the charge inside mainstream civil rights organizations for LGBTQ rights. The Kings’ marriage was a political partnership that directed the course of the civil rights struggle. After Dr. King’s death, her activism in support of global justice and racial-economic justice continued for decades.Edited by the New York Times–bestselling author Jeanne Theoharis and accomplished historian Traci Parker, and featuring contributions from leading civil rights movement historians, this collective biography shows that it is high time we know the real Coretta Scott King, lifelong freedom fighter and powerful force in American history.

In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labor formation. Built on the goals, organization, and momentum of earlier struggles for justice, the department store movement channeled the power of store workers and consumers to promote black freedom in the mid-twentieth century. Sponsoring lunch counter sit-ins and protests in the 1950s and 1960s, and challenging discrimination in the courts in the 1970s, this movement ended in the early 1980s with the conclusion of the Sears, Roebuck, and Co. affirmative action cases and the transformation and consolidation of American department stores. In documenting the experiences of African American workers and consumers during this era, Parker highlights the department store as a key site for the inception of a modern black middle class, and demonstrates the ways that both work and consumption were battlegrounds for civil rights.

In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labor formation. Built on the goals, organization, and momentum of earlier struggles for justice, the department store movement channeled the power of store workers and consumers to promote black freedom in the mid-twentieth century. Sponsoring lunch counter sit-ins and protests in the 1950s and 1960s, and challenging discrimination in the courts in the 1970s, this movement ended in the early 1980s with the conclusion of the Sears, Roebuck, and Co. affirmative action cases and the transformation and consolidation of American department stores. In documenting the experiences of African American workers and consumers during this era, Parker highlights the department store as a key site for the inception of a modern black middle class, and demonstrates the ways that both work and consumption were battlegrounds for civil rights.