Preston Theodore King (born March 3, 1936)[1] is an American academic and African-American civil rights activist.
He was resisting racism by the local draft board in his hometown of Albany, Georgia, during the Jim Crow years.
Accused of draft evasion, King went into exile in the United Kingdom to avoid imprisonment and because he thought the charges unjust.
[2] Following his return to the United States from exile after his presidential pardon in 2000, King taught at Emory University and Morehouse College in Atlanta.
[3] King married British Jewish social justice activist Murreil Hazel Stern, sister of physician Miriam Stoppard, in 1963.