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1998:
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A discussion about the death of assassin James Earl Ray
with Clayborne Carson and Gerald Posner on Apr 23, 1998
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with Clayborne Carson and Gerald Posner on Apr 23, 1998
Dr. Clayborne Carson is an American professor at Staford University, as well as at American Institute, the University of California, and Emory University. His first book, “In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s”, remains the definitive history of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and won him the Organization of American Historians’ Frederick Jackson Turner Award.
Dr. Carson’s other publications include “Malcolm X: The FBI File” and “African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom”. He served as senior advisor for a fourteen-part, award-winning, public television series on the civil rights movement entitled “Eyes on the Prize” and served as historical advisor for “Freedom on My Mind,” which was nominated for an Oscar.
Under Dr. Carson’s direction, the Martin Luther King Papers Project has produced five volumes of a projected fourteen-volume comprehensive edition of King?s speeches, sermons, correspondence, publications, and unpublished writings. In addition to these volumes, he has written numerous other works based on the papers, including “A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.”.
Source- Stanford http://www.stanford.edu/~ccarson/
