Patrick Parr
Author of The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age
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Patrick Parr has written about Dr. King for magazines and newspapers such as Seattle Magazine and the Japan Times. David J. Garrow is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the King biography Bearing the Cross and Rising Stan: The Making of Barack Obama.
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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.… (more)