Historian Jeanne Theoharis’s new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, is a major reexamination of the civil rights leader that offers a ...

Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.

Historian Jeanne Theoharis joins us for an in-depth discussion about her new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, a major reexamination of his ...

King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Freedom Struggle Outside of the South Jeanne Theoharis. New Press, $30.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-62097-931-0 ...

In her book King of the North, Jeanne Theoharis explores Martin Luther King’s advocacy outside the South and how he understood that racism, segregation, and police brutality were a national ...