John Kirk, Professor of US History, Royal Holloway, University of London
The Annual Martin Luther King Lecture
Life after death: The second coming of Rev Dr Martin Luther King, 1968-present
Wednesday 10 February, Old Sessions House 0g46, North Holmes Campus, Canterbury
Professor Kirk will explore the memory and legacy of Dr Martin Luther King in modern American society.
Biography
Professor Kirk has been a Professor of US History at Royal Holloway since 2006, having joined the university in 1999 as a lecturer and Associate Professor in US History. He gained his PhD at Newcastle University in 1997. In 2009, he was made the Rockefeller Archive Center Scholar-in-Residence, a Fellow of the Roosevelt Study Centre (The Netherlands), Fellow of the John F Kennedy Presidential Library (Massachusetts), Fellow of the Rockefeller Archive Center. He also received the British Association of American Studies Founders’ Short-term Travel Award.
His books include:
An Epitaph for Little Rock: A Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective on the Central High Crisis, Beyond Little Rock: The Origins and Legacies of the Central High Crisis, Luther King, Jr and the Civil Rights Movement: Controversies and Debates, The Little Rock School Crisis: A Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective, Martin Luther King, Jr, Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940-1970