2 Quotes & Sayings By Karen L King

Karen L. King is the Regenstein Curator of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Collection at Stanford University, where she is also a professor of history. She is the author of numerous books on race and civil rights in the United States, including The Blood of Emmett Till (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), Strangers in the Land: Blacks in White America (Harvard University Press, 2003), Reconstructing Civil Rights: The Movement for Black Equality, 1954–1985 (University of North Carolina Press, 2001). Her most recent book is Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Reelection (Harvard University Press, 2012) Read more

Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Wilson Quarterly, Harper's Magazine, and The Nation. She lives in San Francisco.