(1944-)

Dr. Clayborne Carson is a Professor of History at Stanford University and the Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project. He has written several of his own works based on the writings of Dr. King, such as A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2001) and The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998). Dr. Carson also lectures at universities here and abroad, along with serving as an advisor to various stage and television productions.

Clayborne Carson's home page at Stanford.

Becoming Stanford: The Making of an American University.

The Organization of American Historians.

"The March on Washington—40 Years Later" (2003)