Program

Research Programs: Scholarly Editions and Translations

Period of Performance

10/1/2015 - 9/30/2018

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$350,000.00 (approved)
$350,000.00 (awarded)


Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.

FAIN: RQ-230483-15

Stanford University (Stanford, CA 94305-2004)
Clayborne Carson (Project Director: December 2014 to March 2022)

Preparation for publication of volumes VIII and IX of the papers of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), covering the years 1962-1964. (36 months)

To support the publication of fourteen volumes of "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.," a definitive edition of King's most historically significant correspondence, sermons, speeches, published writings, and unpublished manuscripts.





Associated Products

Papers of Martin Luther King Jr. (Web Resource)
Title: Papers of Martin Luther King Jr.
Author: Clayborne Carson
Abstract: Margo Davis. Initiated by The King Center in Atlanta, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project is one of only a few large-scale research ventures focusing on an African American. In 1985, King Center's founder and president Coretta Scott King invited Stanford University historian Clayborne Carson to become the Project's director
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://kinginstitute.stanford.edu