Clayborne Carson
Clayborne Carson was born in Buffalo, New York, United States on June 15th, 1944 and is the American Historian. At the age of 79, Clayborne Carson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Carson has been a professor at Stanford University for more than 40 years, where he primarily teaches U.S History and African American History. Carson has taught and lectured in Britain, France, China, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and throughout the United States. He teaches and lectures about Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panther Party, and other subjects related to the black struggle and civil rights. He has been a frequent guest on Pacifica Radio station KPFA in Berkeley, California, and has also appeared on programs like NPR's Fresh Air, the Tavis Smiley Show, the Charlie Rose Show, Good Morning America, and the CBS Evening News. Carson is a member of the global council of the California International Law Center at the University of California, Davis School of Law. Carson is also a member of several professional organizations including: the American Historical Association (AHA), the Organization of American Historians (OAH), the Social Science History Association (SSAH), the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (ASAALH), and the Southern Historical Association.
Carson has also written several books and articles regarding the Civil Rights Movement, and has made contributions to many more as well as documentaries, and interviews. His first book In Struggle: and the Black Awakening of the 1960s was awarded the Fredrick Jackson Turner Award in 1982. Carson was also the Historical Adviser for the film Freedom on My Mind, which in 1995 was nominated for an Oscar.
In 1985, Coretta Scott King asked Carson to lead a project to publish King's previously-unpublished works. In an interview conducted in 2008, Carson explains that he initially declined to work as Senior Editor to Dr. King's works, Carson had "never really thought of [himself] as a King biographer. [He] was a SNCC person," he said, referencing the discord between SNCC and Dr. King that occurred during the movement. Carson eventually agreed to oversee the project mentioning that he would not have accepted the job if the family held control over Dr. King's works. Carson and his staff has spent over 20 years working to edit and publish Dr. King's works.
On April 3, 2018, Clayborne Carson, as the director of the MLK Research and Education Institute, hosted a screening of a documentary that he helped create called I'm MLK, Jr. After the screening he hosted an additional event celebrating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s last speech, "I've Been to the Mountaintop".
In 2021, Carson was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as a member of the newly-formed Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board.
- Andrew Mellon Fellowship (1977)
- Fredrick Jackson Turner Award of the organization of American Historians for In Struggle:SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (1982)
- Rosa Park Distinguished Citizen Award, Martin Luther King, Jr., Association of Santa Clara Valley (1991)
- Society of American Historians; elected member (1991)
- Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences Fellowship (1991)
- Honorary Doctorate from Pacific Graduate School of Psychology (1995)
- Founders Award for Historical Scholarship from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (2000)
- International design competition for the National Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington D.C; winning team member (2000)
- Gandhi King Ikeda Award from Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel, Gandhi Institute for reconciliation, Morehouse College, Atlanta (2004)
- Commendation Resolution by California Legislative Black Caucus, California Assembly, Sacramento (2007)
- Honorary Doctorate from Morehouse College (2007)
- Honorary Doctorate from Niagara University (2008)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Research Fellowship from Howard Gotlieb Archival Center at Boston University (2009)
- Community Leader Award from Peninsula Bay Chapter of The Links, Inc. (2010)
- Local Hero of the Year Award from KQED/Union Bank (2011)
- Joseph B, and Toby Gittler Prize from Brandeis University (2012)
- Honorary Doctorate from Westminster College (2015)
- Freedom Flame Award from Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee, Inc. (2016)
- Tikkun Award from the Network of Spiritual Progressives (2016)
- Willie B. Kennedy Award from the Northern California Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Foundation (2018)
- John W. Blassingame Award from the Southern Historical Association (2018)
- Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation Award for promoting Gandhian values outside India (2018)