People AdministrationFaculty Toggle Faculty Lecturers & VisitorsCourtesy FacultyEmeritiGraduate StudentsGrad Student RepsPeer AdvisorsAlumniIn Memoriam Main content start Clayborne Carson Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor, Emeritus Emeriti 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Carson honored with 2023 Freedom Award November 3, 2023 MLK Papers Project uncovers how Martin became King with rare, unpublished documents February 18, 2021 Clayborne Carson reflects on a life spent studying civil rights and Martin Luther King Jr.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 Contact Telephone (650) 725-8828 Email ccarson [at] stanford.edu External Profile Stanford Profile
