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RABBI BEN KAMIN
San Diego, California
Prize-wining Scholar and Educator on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

Founder of  ‘RECONCILIATION: The Synagogue Without Walls’–a post-denominational, inclusive, non-judgmental outreach institute servicing all faiths and situations.

Multicultural and Interfaith Expert, 
Author, Journalist, Speaker, and Mediator.

PUBLISHED APRIL 1, 2014

Ben’s 10th book and latest MLK title from Michigan State University Press
…and already in development as a motion picture screenplay!

​”The accurate history of a sometimes violent era, a sometimes destructively secretive era, is brought to the fore by Ben Kamin in a fine book.” –Huffington Post

Acclaimed by Civil Rights activists who worked very closely with MLK, this is the first-ever narrative, based on previously unrevealed FBI transcripts and Kennedy administration records of the complicated friendship between Dr. King and Stanley Levison–the former Communist who was King’s closest white friend.

 This book was launched at the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University.

“A worthy and well-timed project.” –Hampton Sides, author of ‘Hellbound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin.’

This is the critically-acclaimed, first-ever oral history and account of the painful transition of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, site of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, into the National Civil Rights Museum.

“ROOM 306 fills a missing piece of America’s civil rights movement.” –CNN