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The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project is looking for undergraduate interns to assist in the publication of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., the authoritative fourteen-volume edition of Dr. King’s most historically significant speeches, sermons, correspondence, and other works. Since Mrs. Coretta Scott King sponsored the Project in 1985 and with the help of hundreds of undergraduates, we have published seven volumes of the edition, which have become essential reference works.
Research consists of archival, library, internet, and database research; analyzing primary-source materials for use in scholarly writing; and basic processes of scholarly publication, and interns receive individual supervision from an assigned Project staff member.
For more information and for any questions, please contact assistant editor David Lai at dalai@stanford.edu.
Photo credit: King playing pool in Chicago, 1966. Photo by Bob Fitch. Courtesy of the Bob Fitch Photography Archive, Stanford University Libraries.
What you will do
Working with primary source documents from the Civil Rights Movement
Maintaining database of documents
Basic research
Individualized supervision
Eligibility and Requirements:
Stanford enrollment required; all class years and majors are welcome. Co-terms who have not received their undergraduate degree/paying undergraduate levels for tuition are also welcome to apply.