Reviews the efforts of the Martin Luther King Jr., Papers Project to prepare a definitive, multivolume edition of King's papers as part of a long-term effort to preserve the historical legacy of the African-American freedom struggle. The initial two volumes of `The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.'; Historical and intellectual context in which King's Crozer and Boston University academic papers were created; Selective use of appropriated passages; Citation and attribution practices; Details.
Reports on a lawsuit filed by Coretta Scott King against Boston University for the return of the papers of the late Martin Luther King Jr. King's deposit of his papers at the university in 1968; Claim that the papers belong to King's estate, not the university; Proposal that the papers be kept at the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia.
Carson, Claybourne, Holloran, Peter, Luker, Ralph E., and Russell, Penny
Subjects
*THEOLOGIANS, *AFRICAN American history
Abstract
Questions the historical and biographical significance of the papers Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote as a divinity student at Crozer Theological Seminary and as a doctoral student at Boston University. Instances of plagiarism; Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Projects; Evidence of King's effort to construct an identity as a theologian and preacher; Desire to stress social and political implications of theological training.
Presents further information related to the student papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Application to graduate school; Excerpt from King's dissertation on the conceptions of God held by Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman; Papers that he wrote at Boston University.
Reports on the suit filed by Coretta Scott King for the return of the collection of papers of Martin Luther King Jr. from Boston University in Massachusetts to Atlanta, Georgia. Coretta King's accusation that the university failed to preserve the collection; University's defense of its King collection.
Published
1988
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