The Metro: New book chronicles Martin Luther King Jr.’s work outside of the South
Jeanne Theoharis’ new book “King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South” talks about King’s time in Pennsylvania and Boston as a student and his return to the Midwest, East, and Western regions of the U.S. at the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
The Civil Rights Movement is largely remembered for its actions in the South, but segregation was a nationwide issue. Dr. King experienced this first hand.
Jeanne Theoharis is professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. In her new book “King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South” she writes about King’s time in Pennsylvania and Boston as a student and his return to the Midwest, East, and Western regions of the U.S. at the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
She joined the show to discuss the book and what it teaches us about social movements in America today.
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