Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. arrives on the 1960 Democratic Nationwide Conference in Los Angeles, California.
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This week on Fringe of Sports activities, we communicate to Jeanne Theoharis, writer of the groundbreaking new guide, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Lifetime of Battle Outdoors the South. It’s a deep dive into the outstanding political work that King achieved north of the Mason-Dixon Line and in Southern California. Theoharis has uncovered a treasure trove of knowledge that has gobsmacked even severe historians of King’s life and legacy.
Additionally, I talked to Hoops Savant Arya Shirazi about why we dislike the Celtics a lot and why they barely observed that the Knicks existed—till now.
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