To help you conduct your own research the King Papers Project would like to suggest the following scholarly books on Dr. King.

Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988).

Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998).

Clayborne Carson ed., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York: IPM/Warner Books, 1998).

Clayborne Carson, Ralph E. Luker, and Penny A. Russell, eds., The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume I: Called to Serve, January 1929-June 1951. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992)

Clayborne Carson, Ralph E. Luker, Penny A. Russell, and Peter Holloran, eds., The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume II: Rediscovering Precious Values, July 1951-November 1955. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994)

Clayborne Carson, Stewart Burns, Susan Carson, Dana Powell, and Peter Holloran, eds., The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume III: Birth of a New Age, December 1955-December 1956. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997)

Clayborne Carson, Susan Carson, Adrienne Clay, Virginia Shadron, and Kieran Taylor, eds., The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume IV: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000)

Clayborne Carson and Kris Shepard, eds, A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York: IPM/Warner Books, 2001).

Clayborne Carson and Peter Holloran, eds. A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York: IPM/Warner Books, 1998).

David Garrow, Bearing the Cross. (New York: Vintage Books, 1998)

Keith Miller, Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Its Sources (New York: The Free Press, 1992).

James M. Washington ed., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986)