The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age

Martin Luther King Jr. was a cautious nineteen-year-old rookie preacher when he left Atlanta, Georgia, to attend divinity school up north. At Crozer Theological Seminary, King, or "ML" back then, immediately found himself surrounded by a white staff and white professors. Even his dorm room had once been used by wounded Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. Young ML was a prankster and a late-night, chain-smoking pool player who fell in love with a white woman while facing discrimination from locals. In class, ML performed well, though he demonstrated a habit of plagiarizing that continued throughout his academic career. In his three years at Crozer, King delivered dozens of sermons around the Philadelphia area, had a gun pointed at him (twice) and eventually became student body president. These experiences shaped him into a man ready to take on even greater challenges. The Seminarian is the first definitive, full-length account of King's years as a divinity student. Long passed over by biographers and historians, this period in King's life is vital to understanding the historical figure he soon became.

Author: Patrick Parr
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Published: 01/07/2020
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781641602280
ISBN10: 1641602287
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Political
- Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists
- Biography & Autobiography | Religious

About the Author
Patrick Parr has written about Dr. King for magazines and newspapers such as Seattle Magazine and the Japan Times. David Garrow is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the King biography Bearing the Cross and Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama.