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The 2025 Little Berks will be held in Evanston, Illinois at the Hilton Orrington Hotel from May 29-June 1,2025. On Thursday current and former officers and trustees will meet to discuss the organization’s past and future planning, then members of the Berks will join Friday afternoon for a weekend of friendship, scholarship and connection.
Our weekend will include evening talks, a graduate student and early career scholar writing workshop, and open discussions of issues facing the organization and profession.
Saturday evening we will hear from Jeanne Theoharis about her new book King of the North, a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jeanne Theoharis is the author or co-author of thirteen books and numerous articles on the civil rights and Black Power movements and the contemporary politics of race in the United States. Her new book (coming out March 25, 2025) is King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr’s. Life of Struggle Outside the South. Her biography The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks won a 2014 NAACP Image Award and the Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. The book was turned into a documentary directed by Johanna Hamilton and Yoruba Richen and executive produced by Soledad O’Brien now streaming on Peacock where she served as a consulting producer. The documentary was awarded a 2023 Peabody Award and a Television Academy Honor Award. Her book A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History won the 2018 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize for Nonfiction. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC, The Nation, The Atlantic, The Intercept, Boston Review, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
