King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South—A Conversation With Author Jeanne Theoharis and Researchers David Rondeau, Tyra Smart, and Gabrielle White

The Martin Luther King Jr. of popular memory vanquished Jim Crow in the South. But in this myth-shattering book, Jeanne Theoharis argues that King’s time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago was at the heart of his campaign for racial justice. King of the North follows the Kings as they come of age in school in the North and as he crisscrosses the country from the Northeast to the West Coast, challenging school segregation, police brutality, housing segregation, and job discrimination. For these efforts, he was relentlessly attacked by white liberals, the federal government, and the national media.

Join us on for a conversation on King of the North—particularly focused on how the nation’s flagship print media covered King’s work outside the South—with Jeanne Theoharis and three of her research assistants for the book, Brooklyn College graduates David Rondeau, Tyra Smart, and Gabrielle White, who helped her document this media story.