Includes bibliographical references and index.

Only the Language Was Polite : King of the North -- Our First Protest : Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott Come of Age in the North -- There Lived a Great People : King's Leadership Emerges, as Does His Critique of the North -- The Thin Veneer of the North's Racial Self-Righteousness : King and the Black Freedom Struggle in New York -- A New Form of Slavery Covered Up with Certain Niceties : Rethinking 1963 and King's Growing Frustration with Northern Intransigence -- Voting for Ghettos : King and the Struggle in Los Angeles Before Watts -- As Segregated as Birmingham : King in Chicago Before the Chicago Campaign -- Police Brutality in the North Is Rationalized, Tolerated, and Usually Denied : King Takes On White Shock After Watts -- Warrior Without a Gun : The Kings Move to Chicago -- One Day That Man Wants to Get Out of Prison : The Organizing Deepens but So Does White Resistance -- Never Seen Mobs as Hostile...but the Nation Turns Its Back -- The Time Is Now : Building National Black Political Power,Anticolonial Solidarities, and Culture of Poverty Critique -- To Make the Nation Say Yes When They Are Inclined to Say No : The Poor People's Campaign -- Be Careful What You Wish For : The Willful Ignoring of Dr. King's Challenge to Northern Racism.