San Francisco, CA at The Commonwealth Club World Affairs
Wed, Jun 03
|Commonwealth Club, TR Rock Auditorium
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 his approach to activism and service?
Time & Location
Jun 03, 2026, 5:30 PM
Commonwealth Club, TR Rock Auditorium, 110 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
About the event
Before Martin Luther King, Jr. was a civil rights leader, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, and a global hero, he was an emotional boy, and an average high school student devoted to fashion, dancing, and dating. On his way to college, he took a summer job that left the Jim Crow South behind and tested his oratory skills—preaching in the tobacco fields of Connecticut, which ultimately gave him a sense of hope for a life of racial peace and harmony.