{"product_id":"young-king-lerone-martin-9798228708242","title":"Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a preeminent King scholar, the origin story of the man, minister, and civil rights hero who would lead the nation and change the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevelatory, humanizing, and compassionate, \u003ci\u003eYoung King\u003c\/i\u003e unearths: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMLK's Childhood on Auburn Avenue\u003c\/b\u003e: his days as \"Little Mike\"--the ever-eager middle child and a precocious prankster--spent at Ebenezer Baptist Church and the Auburn Avenue Library in Atlanta\u003cb\u003eEarly Encounters with Racism\u003c\/b\u003e: his early experiences of segregation and the summers he spent on a Connecticut tobacco farm, his first trip outside the Jim Crow South\u003cb\u003eCollege Life at Morehouse\u003c\/b\u003e: his transformative time at Morehouse, playing basketball, hosting parties, studying sociology, and joining the Ministers' Union\u003cb\u003ePath to Seminary and Activism\u003c\/b\u003e: his winding path to seminary and the co-development of his activist consciousness, his spiritual devotion, and his relationship with Coretta, his wife-to-be\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs America undergoes another era of turmoil and change, this powerful biography provides a vital roadmap for how greatness comes to light. This essential work is a testament to how history shapes a leader.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSupplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lerone Martin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798228708242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e HarperCollins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e CD","brand":"Lerone Martin","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":48483408806143,"sku":"9798228708242","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_efd4a391-b18d-4b4d-a602-f8829e297139.jpg?v=1778038605","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/young-king-lerone-martin-9798228708242","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}