This is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute's own institutional biography of King, published through the King Institute at Stanford University, covering his life, his Baptist ministry and his leadership of the civil rights movement. As the Institute's own standing reference, built from its extensive King papers archive, it is authoritative for established biographical facts. Its limit is that it is an institutional reference account rather than independent critical scholarship engaging contested questions in King historiography, so a claim resting on a disputed interpretive point about King's life or thought needs a source engaging that debate directly rather than this biographical overview.
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Published by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University as its own standing institutional biography, built from its own King papers archive, treated at the top tier as that primary institutional record. NotesAn institutional biographical resource on Martin Luther King Jr. published by the King Research and Education Institute (the King Institute at Stanford), covering his life, Baptist ministry and the civil rights movement. Use for established biographical facts about King; an institutional reference account rather than independent critical scholarship.
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AuthorThe Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
PublisherStanford University
URLhttps://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/
Source TypeInstitutional
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This source names Baptist directly: "University, covering his life, his Baptist ministry and his leadership of the civil rights movement."
This source names Martin Luther directly: "This is the Martin Luther King, Jr."
Claims Backed By This Source (36 claims)
This source backs 36 claims across the atlas. As facts: 23 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds, 1 connected. Plus 9 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Historical Figures, 12 claims: 10 well-attested, 2 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Articles, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Sacred Sites, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 2 general references.
- States & Territories, 3 claims: 3 general references.
- Denominations, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
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