The Book MLK Historians Are Learning From

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Dave Zirin / The Nation

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 129 minutes

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This week, we speak to Jeanne Theoharis, author of the groundbreaking new book King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South. It is a deep dive into the remarkable political work that Dr. King accomplished north of the Mason-Dixon line and in southern California. Theoharis has uncovered a treasure trove of information that has gobsmacked even serious historians of King's life and legacy.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Edge of Sports Podcast, brought to you by the Nation magazine.
0:14.6	I'm Dave Ziren. Thrill. Absolutely thrilled to have on the show this week.
0:20.1	A political science professor at Brooklyn College
0:22.8	you may know her as the author
0:24.9	of what's become a modern classic
0:26.9	called The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
0:30.4	well she's got a new book
0:32.4	it's called King of the North
0:34.1	Martin Luther King Jr's Life of Struggle
0:36.8	Outside the South.
0:38.8	One of those books that's such a good concept, you're almost shocked that no one's done it
0:44.4	already. Her name is Dr. Jean, Theo Harris. I hope I pronounced that correctly. It looks like I did.
0:53.3	Thank you so much for joining us here on edge of sports.
0:56.2	Thank you so much for having me.
0:58.0	I'm absolutely thrilled too.
1:00.5	So first and foremost, I want to jump right in.
1:03.6	One of my favorite Malcolm X quotes is when he said, and I'm going to paraphrase it a little
1:09.8	bit, that the American South begins
1:12.5	at the Canadian border.
1:14.2	Right, right.
1:14.9	What would the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. of, say, 1967, have thought about that quote.
1:23.4	Oh, I mean, we don't even be in 1967.
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