Biography;

Educator; civil rights activist.  Born December 13, 1924, Marion.  Parents–Obadiah and Bernice McMurray Scott.  Married Arthur Bagley, June 5, 1954.  Children– one.  Education: Lincoln Normal School, Marion; Antioch College; Ohio State University, B.A.; Columbia University, M.A.; Boston University, M.F.A. in Theatre Arts, 1965.  Taught high school English in Talladega; taught at Albany State College, Norfolk State University, and North Carolina A. & M.;  Cheyney State University (PA.), 1971-1996.  Active in the Civil Rights Movement with her sister Coretta Scott King; a life member of the Board of Directors of the King Center from its founding in 1968.  Member AAUW, NAACP, National Council of Negro Women. Received the Walter F. Anderson Award for outstanding alumni from Antioch College, 2010.  Died June 11, 2011.

Source;

Obituary.

Publications:

Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King.  University of Alabama Press, 2012.