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Please join Frank A. Guridy (Dr. Kenneth and Kareitha Forde Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Professor of History; Executive Director of the Holder Initiative at Columbia University) and Jeanne Theoharis (Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York) as they discuss Professor Theoharis's new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South.
The first 50 attendees to check in will receive a free copy of Professor Theoharis's book.
6:30 - 7:30 p.m. (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.) | Conversation on King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South & Audience Q & A
7:30–8:30 p.m. | Reception (refreshments will be served)
Registration for this event is required.
About King of the North
The Martin Luther King Jr. of popular memory vanquished Jim Crow in the South. But in this myth-shattering book, award-winning and New York Times bestselling historian Jeanne Theoharis argues that King’s time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago—outside Dixie—was at the heart of his campaign for racial justice. King of the North follows King 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 media, and the federal government.
In this bold retelling, King emerges as a someone who not only led a movement but who showed up for other people’s struggles; a charismatic speaker who also listened and learned; a Black man who experienced police brutality; a minister who lived with and organized alongside the poor; and a husband who—despite his flaws—depended on Coretta Scott King as an intellectual and political guide in the national fight against racism, poverty, and war.
King of the North speaks directly to our struggles over racial inequality today. Just as she restored Rosa Parks’s central place in modern American history, so Theoharis radically expands our understanding of King’s life and work—a vision of justice unfulfilled in the present.