Who is Clayborne Carson?
Clayborne Carson is professor of history at Stanford University and founding director of the King Institute. In 1985, Coretta Scott King asked Dr. Carson to assemble and edit her late husband’s papers. In 2005, Dr. Carson and Stanford created the Institute as a permanent endowed center to house the King Papers Project and related educational initiatives. Dr. Carson received his doctorate at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Carson’s first book, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, a study of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was published in 1981 and won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians. He co-authored the recent textbook African-American Lives: the Struggle for Freedom (2005). He is the author of the play “Passage of Martin Luther King, Jr.” and served as advisor for numerous documentaries, including the award-winning public television series, “Eyes on the Prize.” Dr. Carson often lectures on Kin
