Clayborne Carson

During his undergraduate years at UCLA, Dr. Carson was a participant and observer of African-American political movements. Since receiving his doctorate from UCLA in 1975, he has taught at Stanford University, where he is now professor of history and director of the King Papers Project. Dr. Carson has also been a visiting professor at American University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Emory University and a Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.

Books
	A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Address to the First Montgomery Improvement Association (Mia) Mass Meeting. December 5, 1955, was one of the memorable and inspiring days of my life. History records this day as the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement that transformed America
	The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Of course I was religious. I grew up in the church. My father is a preacher, my grandfather was a preacher, my great-grandfather was a preacher, my only brother is a preacher, my daddy's brother is a preacher. So I didn't have much choice.
	A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. I want you to think with me this morning from the subject: Rediscovering Lost Values. There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong. I don't think we have to look too far to see that.