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Sanitizing MLK’s legacy begins by forgetting his life outside the South
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She’s one of the most important and leading chronicler of the Civil Rights Movement and black power movements in our country.
Our most recent book is King of the North, Martin Luther King’s Life of Struggle Outside the South.
And I also have to mention her amazing New York Times bestselling biography, the rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.
Jeanne Theoharis :I think part of the ways that we’ve sanitized King is that we’ve ized him.
You’re beautiful, you’re smart, you’re thoughtful.
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