King of the North: Martin Luther King's Freedom Struggle Outside of the South

by Jeanne Theoharis

From the New York Times bestselling author, a radical reframing of the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr.

"Theoharis shows us through penetrating research and sensitive, scholarly insight that Dr. King not only was keenly aware of the history of antiblack racism in the North, but battled it from the very beginning of his career." --Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The Martin Luther King Jr. of popular memory vanquished...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620979314
• ISBN13: 9781620979310
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 400 Pages