| Summary: | Historian Clayborne Carson was born on June 15, 1944, in Buffalo, New York, to Clayborne and Louise Carson. Carson attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied history and graduated with his B.A. degree in 1967, his M.A. degree in 1971, and his Ph.D. degree in 1975. In 1981, he published In Struggle: SNCC and The Black Awakening of the 1960's, which received the Organization of American Historians' Frederick Jackson Turner Award. In 1985, Coretta Scott King requested that Carson become senior editor of an ongoing multi-volume project, The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Carson was promoted to professor of American history in 1991, and became founding director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute in 2005. He published The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1998. He served as senior advisor for the PBS documentary series "Eyes on the Prize.".
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