MLK Chapel: Staff

REV. DR. LAWRENCE EDWARD CARTER SR.

Founding Dean

In 1958, Martin Luther King Jr. privately recruited Lawrence Edward Carter as a 10th grader to come to Morehouse College. Twenty-one years later, Lawrence Carter became the first dean of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel in 1979. Today he is a tenured professor of religion at Morehouse , the college archivist, and curator. For 56 years, Carter has studied and worked in 14 American universities, colleges, and professional schools, spoken at over 100 different colleges, universities, and seminaries, and received more than 1,000 speaking invitations from 18 Christian denominations, including Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist communions, and traveled to 38 foreign countries. He has made more than 100 radio and television appearances, including continent-wide in Africa, Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Oceania, Singapore, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. The author of six books and almost five dozen published articles has received five honorary doctorates from colleges around the world among a host of other awards and recognition. Carter is the founder of Morehouse College’s International Hall of Honor, consisting of over two hundred original oil portraits of distinguished leaders in the civil and human rights nonviolent movement globally, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Chapel Assistants Pre-seminarians Program, and the Gandhi King Ikeda Institute for Global Ethics and Reconciliation.

• Learn more about Dean Carter

• lawrence.carter@morehouse.edu