In 1985 Clayborne Carson accepted the invitation of Coretta Scott King to direct a long-term project to edit and publish the papers of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The founding director of Stanford’s King Research and Education Institute and executive director of Morehouse’s King Collection, he is coauthor of The Struggle for Freedom: A History of African Americans (2007) and has written or edited numerous works based on the papers, including The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998) and the docudrama "Passages of Martin Luther King." He was also senior adviser for the award-winning public television series, "Eyes on the Prize."

Lecture topics:

• Martin Luther King Jr. and Global Liberation
• King and Malcolm X
• King and Gandhi
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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