The Student Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr
A Summary Statement on Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11558010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Luther King (0000-0003-2677-6782, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-23 |
| Publication date | 1991-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2078081 |
| OpenAlex | W2325661712 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
As part of a long-term effort to preserve the historical legacy of the AfricanAmerican freedom struggle, the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project is preparing a definitive, multivolume edition of King's papers.' King Project staff members and students at Stanford University, Emory University, and at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change have been assembling and preparing accurate texts of King's most significant correspondence, sermons, public statements, published writings, and unpublished manuscripts. The initial two volumes of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr will cover the period before the start of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott in December 1955. These volumes will document King's family background, his childhood in Atlanta, his academic training at Morehouse College in Atlanta (1944-1948), Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania (1948-1951), and Boston University (1951-1955), and his first year as pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery. The volumes are scheduled for publication by the University of California Press in 1992. In accordance with established procedures for documentary editing, the King Project investigated the historical and intellectual context in which King's Crozer and Boston University academic papers were created. Project staff members then prepared annotations for more than fifty papers, calling attention to texts that may have influenced King's writings. Early in 1988, staff members became aware that many of the papers, including King's dissertation, contain passages that are similar or identical to texts King consulted and that he did not adequately cite those source texts. King's bibliography or notes nearly always identify his sources, but the lack of adequate citations and quotation marks obscures the extent to which King relied upon the works of others
Atlanta · Boycott · Context (archaeology · Memphis · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Political and Social Dynamics · Classics · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |