The King Papers Project
Overview
The King Papers Project is a 14-volume scholarly edition collecting, contextualizing, and publishing primary source material from the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement. It has been housed at Stanford's MLK Institute since 1985.
As a staff researcher, I contributed original archival research to Volumes VIII (1963) and XI (1966) of the King Papers. The work involved identifying, verifying, and contextualizing historical records across multiple archives, applying rigorous source evaluation and evidentiary standards to a corpus used by researchers, educators, and institutions worldwide.
Details
- Methods Archival research across multiple collections; primary source verification and contextualization; historical analysis
- Institution Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University