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Church and she drove the school bus. Obie pursued many jobs, including barbering, transporting timber, and driving a taxi cab. The oldest of the Scott's, Edythe attended crossroad school. Edythe received her secondary education at
Lincoln School in nearby Marion, where she was exposed to a faculty that was both racially and geographically diverse with members from New England, New York, and the Midwest as a junior that included an appearance in Yellow Springs, Ohio, home of Antioch College. That exposure led to Antioch's offer of a scholarship, and after graduating from Lincoln as a class valedictorian.
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333:, detailing their shared experiences growing up in Alabama and Mrs. King's life during the early days of the modern Civil Rights Movement. Over the next two years, she conducted extensive research, gathered family documents, and interviewed countless individuals who had been at the center of the civil rights struggle. That work resulted in a manuscript and after two years of effort, she placed it in the mail to an interested publisher on April 4, 1968, then went home to relax. Later that evening, she learned that her brother-in-law,
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and served on its board of directors for the rest of her life. On Labor Day weekend of 1968, Edythe went to
Atlanta to visit her sister and met with her staff for the first time. Edythe represented her sister and her brother-in-law in 1971 when the Police Athletic League dedicated a building its
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Bernice McMurry-Scott and Obie Scott Sr, as were her siblings, Coretta, Obie Leonard and Eunice. Her parents were leaders in the community. in addition to running the Scott household, Bernice was the church pianist at Mt. Tabor A.M.E Zion
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Events in the months that followed overshadowed Mrs. Bagley's manuscript, and it went unpublished. Then shortly before Mrs. King's death, she again encouraged Mrs. Bagley to pick up the project once more. With the assistance of bestselling author
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Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King
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