In 1985 Coretta Scott King, founder and president of the King Center in Atlanta, asked Stanford historian Clayborne Carson to serve as senior editor of a definitive, multi-volume edition of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Carson founded the King Research and Education Institute in 2005 to support the work of the King Papers Project and a broad range of related educational activities. For additional information about the King Papers Project and the King Institute, visit its website: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/.