Several on-campus events are scheduled to honor the legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. during the month of January.

An open house at the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute will take place today from 2 to 4 p.m. Scheduled guests include Clarence Jones, former attorney and speechwriter for King and other participants in and historians of the civil rights movement.

On Sunday, Jan. 14, an Ecumenical Christian Celebration of King’s life and work will take place at 10 a.m. in Memorial Church.

A student delegation sponsored by the King Institute will ride a specially chartered “Freedom” CalTrain on Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 15.

At an Oak Lounge luncheon at noon on Wednesday, Jan. 17, Pastor Jonathan Thomas of the Jerusalem Baptist Church in Palo Alto will perform a reading of King’s sermons featured in the upcoming book “Advocate of the Social Gospel, September 1948-March 1963.” Two co-editors of the forthcoming work, History Prof. Clayborne Carson and Susan Englander of the King Institute, will be present for a book signing after the reading.

Guest speakers and a film clip will honor the contributions of research chemist Lavon Julian, one of the first African-Americans elected to the National Academy of Sciences, at 4 p.m. in the Clark Center Auditorium.