The legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will be discussed at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ in the annual Rayborn L. Zerby Lecture at 7:30 p.m. March 25.<\/p>\n
The talk by theologian, teacher and author Vincent Harding, Martin Luther King and the Future of America<\/em>, will be presented in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives. The public is invited to attend at no charge.<\/p>\n Harding’s books include his best-known work, There is a River<\/em>, and his most recent, Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero<\/em>. Focusing on the end of King’s life, the essays in the book reflect on how Americans might take the civil rights leader’s final years as a challenge and a resource for the nation’s future.<\/p>\n Harding was senior academic adviser for the acclaimed public-television series Eyes on the Prize<\/em>. Currently he is professor of religion and social transformation at the Iliff School of Theology at the University of Denver.<\/p>\n Previously he was chair of the history and sociology department at Spelman College in Atlanta. He served from 1969 to 1974 as the first director of the Atlanta-based Institute of the Black World.<\/p>\n A native of New York City, he earned his master’s degree and doctorate at the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n The Zerby Lecture is a memorial to Rayborn L. Zerby of Lewiston, who contributed to the growth of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ through years of service as professor of religion and dean of the faculty before retiring in 1962. He died in 1987 at the age of 95.<\/p>\n Each year, the program brings leading commentators on contemporary religious thought to campus. Previous Zerby lecturers have included Holocaust chronicler Elie Wiesel and the Rev. Peter Gomes, a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ alumnus and minister of Memorial Church at Harvard University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will be discussed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"","_header-color":"","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"","override_related_with_tag":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5708,10751,9436],"class_list":["post-21612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-highlights","tag-martin-luther-king-jr","tag-religious-studies","tag-zerby-lecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92227,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21612\/revisions\/92227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}