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[https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/king-of-the-north/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT 1961] | [https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/king-of-the-north/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT 1961] | ||
King of the North fundamentally reshapes how we understand the evolution of Martin Luther King Jr.’s politics and partnerships. While most accounts frame King’s activism as a Southern story culminating in the March on Washington, Theoharis insists we follow him north — into the segregated schools, redlined housing, and brutally policed neighborhoods of Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and beyond. | King of the North fundamentally reshapes how we understand the evolution of Martin Luther King Jr.’s politics and partnerships. While most accounts frame King’s activism as a Southern story culminating in the March on Washington, Theoharis insists we follow him north — into the segregated schools, redlined housing, and brutally policed neighborhoods of Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and beyond. | ||
=====People’s Historians Online: Rethinking Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.===== | |||
[https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/rethinking-martin-luther-king/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT 2/5/20] | |||
On International Workers’ Day (May 1), close to 300 educators, parents, and students joined the session with Jeanne Theoharis and Jesse Hagopian on the radical history of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | |||
