Clayborne Carson Biography

Selected in 1985 by the late Mrs. Coretta Scott King to edit and publish the papers of her late husband Stanford University historian Clayborne Carson has devoted most his professional life to the study of Martin Luther King Jr. and the movements King inspired. Under his direction the King Papers Project has produced six volumes of a definitive comprehensive edition of speeches sermons correspondence publications and unpublished writings. Dr. Carson has also edited numerous other books based on King's papers. In 2005 the King Papers Project became part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University with Dr. Carson serving as the Institute's founding director.
A member of Stanford's Department of History since receiving his doctorate from UCLA in 1975 Carson has also served as visiting professor or visiting fellow at American University the University of California-Berkeley Duke University Emory University Harvard University the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford the L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and at Morehouse College in Atlanta where during 2009 he was Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of that institution's King Collection.

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