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S. Paul Schilling, the dissertation’s second reader, approved
the draft as well.

King turned in the final version of his dissertation by the 15
April 1955 deadline, returning to Boston for his oral defense.
Graduate faculty at Boston University voted to confer the PhD on
King in May 1955; however, due to financial difficulties and
Coretta Scott King’s pregnancy, he was unable to attend
graduation.

Sources

Carson et al., ‘‘Martin Luther King, Jr., as Scholar: A
Reexamination of His Theological Writings,’’ Journal of American
History 78 (June 1991): 93–105.

Davis to King, 7 December 1953, in Papers 2:225–226.

DeWolf, First Reader’s Report, 26 February 1955, in Papers
2:333–334.

Introduction, in Papers 1:49–50.

Introduction, in Papers 2:22–26.

King, ‘‘A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking
of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman,’’ 15 April 1955, in
Papers 2:339–544.

King to Davis, 1 December 1953, in Papers 2:223–224.

King to Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, 14 April 1954, in Papers
2:260.

King Papers Project, ‘‘The Student Papers of Martin Luther King,
Jr.: A Summary Statement on Research,’’ Journal of American
History 78 (June 1991): 23–31.

Schilling, Second Reader’s Report, 26 February 1955, in Papers
2:334–335.

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