Preston King (academic)

Preston Theodore King (born March 3, 1936) is an American academic and African-American civil rights activist. He taught extensively in universities in the United Kingdom, Africa, Australia and, finally, the United States.

In 1961 King moved to exile in the United Kingdom after having done graduate work there. He was resisting racism by the local draft board in his hometown of Albany, Georgia. He did not return to the United States until he had received a presidential pardon from Bill Clinton in 2000.