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An Evening With Author Jeanne Theoharis

King of the North Book Launch Event

2025-04-07 18:30:00 2025-04-07 19:30:00 America/Chicago An Evening With Author Jeanne Theoharis In conversation with Venice Williams, Executive Director of Alice's Garden Urban Farm and The Table. Centennial Hall - Complex: Auditorium, Loos, & Masters

Monday, April 07
6:30pm - 7:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-04-07 18:30:00 2025-04-07 19:30:00 America/Chicago An Evening With Author Jeanne Theoharis In conversation with Venice Williams, Executive Director of Alice's Garden Urban Farm and The Table. Centennial Hall - Complex: Auditorium, Loos, & Masters

Centennial Hall

Complex: Auditorium, Loos, & Masters

In conversation with Venice Williams, Executive Director of Alice's Garden Urban Farm and The Table.

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 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.

The first book to ever uncover the depths of Coretta Scott King’s involvement in the movement, her husband’s pursuits, and the shaping of modern history, King of the North sheds brilliant new light on their marriage and partnership and her paramount impact on his story and successes.

Please register for this FREE event. Doors open to for general admission at 6:00PM. The event will start at 6:30PM. Niche Book Bar will be onsite for book sales throughout the event. A book signing with the author will follow the public presentation.

AGE GROUP: | Older Adults | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Author Event | Arts, Music, & Culture |

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