Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr.
Tue, May 26
|KALW Public Media
From Lerone A. Martin, a preeminent King scholar, the origin story of the man, minister, and civil rights hero who would lead the nation and change the world.
Time & Location
May 26, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
KALW Public Media, 220 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA
About The Event
Co-presented with KALW
We know who Martin Luther King, Jr. became, but who was he at the beginning of his life? How did his youth inform his outlook and activism?
Before Martin Luther King, Jr. was a civil rights leader, a Nobel Laureate, and a global hero, he was an emotional boy, a middling high school student devoted to fashion, dancing, and dating. Lerone A. Martin, Faculty Director of the Martin Luther King Institute at Stanford University, traces these roots to develop a fuller understanding of the influential preacher’s emotional life, his youthful confusion about his future and career direction, his teenage missteps, and his inspiration to fight for justice. In conversation with KALW's Sunni Khalid. FREE
Lerone A. Martin is the Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Professor in Religious Studies and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. Dr. Martin is an…