Rutgers-Camden Event to Highlight Childhood of Martin Luther King Jr.
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CAMDEN – Dr. Lenore A. Martin will present “Young King,” an examination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s childhood and how that influenced his life and work at the Rutgers University-Camden Campus Center Multipurpose Room, 326 Penn Street, on Thursday, Jan. 29, at 4:40 p.m.
A historian of religion in the 20th century, Martin is the faculty director for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, where is also an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies.
His books and scholarship program critical context for the forces of religion, politics, and race that have shaped the contemporary American political and social landscape.
His appointment to the position of Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor was the result of a national search to succeed the storied King Institute’s founding director after more than 40 years in the role, making Martin only the second faculty director.
One of his most important directorial responsibilities is the ongoing work of editing King’s
signi?cant sermons, speeches, published writings, correspondence and unpublished papers.
In June of 2023, under Martin’s leadership, the Institute received the largest gift in its history, which will support the digitization of Dr. King’s writings, o?ering them through a new, searchable online database that will be available to the public and to scholars worldwide.
“I think of Martin Luther King Jr. as a conversation partner in our studies of history and in helping us think about the future,” Martin said. Martin’s book, Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr., about the adolescence and calling of Martin Luther King, Jr., will be published by HarpersCollins in May 2026.
For additional information contact: Simanti Lahiri, Program Coordinator for Public Engagement Simanti.Lahiri@rutgers.edu.
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