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Cargando... The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Agepor Patrick Parr
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Martin Luther King Jr. was a cautious 19-year-old rookie preacher when he left Atlanta, Georgia, to attend seminary up north. Immediately at Crozer Theological Seminary, King, or "ML" back then, found that he was surrounded by a white staff and white professors. Even his dorm room had once been used by wounded Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. His fellow seminarians were almost all older: soldiers who had fought in World War II, pacifists who had chosen to resist fighting. The friendships of Walter McCall and Horace Whitaker and the mentorship of Rev. J. Pius Barbour built the foundation for him to begin to rise in this new environment. 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 students and the surrounding town of Chester, Pennsylvania. In class, ML performed well, but he started a habit of plagiarizing that extended throughout his academic career. Between the years of 1948 and 1951, King delivered dozens of sermons around the Philadelphia area, had a gun pointed at him (twice), and eventually became student body president. These experiences at Crozer shaped him into a man ready to take on even greater challenges. The Seminarian is the first full-length narrative and definitive account of King's years as a divinity student at Crozer Theological Seminary. Long passed over by biographers and historians, this three-year period in King's life was vital in preparing him for his difficult road ahead. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Parr provides a lot of supplemental material in this book including Crozer's class rosters and course discriptions. King grew into adulthood while at Crozer and polished his speaking and leadership abilities there.
Crozer Seminary was in Chester, Pennsylvania. I visited the site of the campus in 2002. It was then a social service facility . The school had merged with Colgate-Rochester Divinity School in 1970 and closed the Chester campus. Colgate Rochester after that became Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. I can't quite claim that Dr. King and I share an alma mater but I did take one graduate class in the 1990s at Colgate Rochester Crozer and I was pleased to see that there was a seminar room called the Crozer Room which had some MLK memorabilia in a display case. I am glad I found this book. ( )