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   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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