Clayborne Carson is Director and Senior Editor of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute and Professor of History at Stanford University. Susan Carson is Managing Editor of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute. Susan Englander is Assistant Editor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute. Troy Jackson is Senior Pastor of the University Christian Church in Cincinnati and a doctoral candidate in U.S. History at the University of Kentucky. Gerald L. Smith is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky and Pastor of Farristown Baptist Church, Berea, Kentucky.