Today Jones is a visiting professor at Stanford University's Martin Luther King Jr.

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Ms. HUNTER-GAULT: Well, of course, I have to say, I walked in the footsteps of Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King when I desegregated the University of Georgia, and they paved the way and made my journey a whole lot easier because of their spiritual leadership and their own courage.

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The book is set in the late 1960s, soon after Martin Luther King's assassination, in a small university town in Ohio.

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She's also a visiting fellow at Harvard's WEB DuBois Institute, and Dr. Clay Carson is an editor of the papers of Martin Luther King Jr, and the Director of the King Institute at Stanford University.

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