Young King: revealing book shines light on Martin Luther King Jr’s early days

Lerone Martin’s new book offers fascinating insight into the civil rights icon’s younger years Lerone Martin, a prominent scholar of Black religious history, leads the Martin Luther King Jr Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. His new book, Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr, grew from “professional and personal” roots. Professionally, Martin “started coming across things that I had never seen before” about the civil rights leader’s childhood in Atlanta, his y...

By Martin Pengelly