The Life and Politics of Coretta Scott King

Historian Jeanne Theoharis discussed her book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Historian Jeanne Theoharis returned to discuss her book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South with renowned civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Article. By Vincent Intondi. If We Knew Our History Series.
Intondi states: “African American leaders have long been concerned with broad issues of peace and justice — and have especially opposed nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, this activism is left out of mainstream corporate-produced history textbooks.”

Book — Non-fiction. 2025. By Jeanne Theoharis. 400 pages.
Illustrates how King’s time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago — outside Dixie — was at the heart of his campaign for racial justice.

Book — Non-fiction. By Matthew F. Delmont. 2026. 368 pages.
The history of the Vietnam War with a focus on the African American experience in the antiwar movement and as returning soldiers.

Amidst growing opposition to the U.S. war in Vietnam, large-scale anti-war protests were held in New York, San Francisco, and many other cities.

The Poor People’s Campaign was a multiracial effort to gain economic justice for poor people.

The United States celebrated its first national Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, three years after the holiday was signed into law and eighteen years after the fight for a King holiday began.