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Published January 19th, 2026, 05:24 pm

The Civil Rights Movement was largely focused in the South, but segregation was happening across the country. 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 discusses what her book teaches us about social movements in America today.

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New book chronicles Dr. King's work outside of the South

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