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Clayborne Carson

Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor, Emeritus
Emeriti
Clayborne Carson

Featured News

Clayborne Carson honored with 2023 Freedom Award

November 3, 2023

MLK Papers Project uncovers how Martin became King with rare, unpublished documents

February 18, 2021
Clayborne Carson

Clayborne Carson reflects on a life spent studying civil rights and Martin Luther King Jr.

January 22, 2021

How to Build a Movement - Featured: Clay Carson, Estelle Freedman, Allyson Hobbs and Pamela Karlan

September 16, 2020

Clayborne Carson: Looking back at a legacy

September 2, 2020

George Floyd and 'the moral arc of the universe': insight from MLK's official historian

June 4, 2020

Leaderless, decentralized protest is a strength and a weakness, warns civil rights scholar Clayborne Carson

June 4, 2020

Video: Stanford’s Clayborne Carson in Selma on the 50th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’

March 13, 2015

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