Dr. King donated his papers to Boston University in 1964. The papers are held in the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center on the fifth floor of BU's Mugar Memorial Library. To gain access to the papers, please submit a written request to the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center (instructions can be found at http://archives.bu.edu/researchers).
An exhibition of King's papers can be viewed in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Reading Room on the third floor of BU's Mugar Memorial Library. For more information, please visit: http://archives.bu.edu/exhibitions/mlk.