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.
*TWENTIETH century, *AFRICAN American civil rights, *ARCHIVES, *HISTORY of civil rights movements, RACE relations in the United States
Abstract
Reviews the book `The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Volume I: Called to Serve: January 1929-June 1951,' edited by Clayborne Carson, Ralph E. Luker, Penny A. Russell and Louis R. Harlan.
*AFRICAN American civil rights, *TWENTIETH century, *ARCHIVES, *HISTORY of civil rights movements, RACE relations in the United States
Abstract
Reviews the book, `The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr. Vol. 3: Birth of a New Age, December 1955-December 1956,' edited by Clayborne Carson, Stewart Burns, Susan Carson, Peter Holloran and Dana L.H. Powell.
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.
Published
1991
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