Martin Luther King Fellows in Black Religion Studies.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows in Black Religion Studies began as an element of the Program of Black Church Studies at the Colgate Rochester Divinity School (Rochester, N.Y.). Headed by Henry H. Mitchell and coordinated by the Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Bexely Hall, and Crozer Theological Seminary, the project received funding from the Irwin-Sweeney-Miller Foundation. In 1972, twenty fellows were chosen for study in West Africa, the West Indies, the Sea Islands of Georgia, Atlanta's International Theological Center, and sponsoring seminaries. By 1975 nineteen King Fellows received their Doctor of Ministry degrees from the Rochester consortium and formed the Martin Luther King Jr. Fellows in Black Religion Studies Corporation in New York.