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Luther King, Jr., Research & Education Institute Cypress Hall D, Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-4146 Ph. (650) 723-2092/725-8828 or FAX 723-2093 E-mail: ccarson@stanford.edu |
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Department Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-2024 Ph. (650) 723-2651 or 723-1595 Web page: http://www.stanford.edu/~ccarson/ |
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| Born in Buffalo, New York, on June 15, 1944 | ||
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UNIVERSITY DEGREES |
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| B. A. (1967), M. A. (1971), Ph.D. (1975) from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | ||
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| POSITIONS | MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS AND EDITIONS | |
| BOOKS | HONORS AND AWARDS | |
| JOURNAL ARTICLES | PUBLIC AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE | |
| REFERENCE BOOK ARTICLES | PUBLIC LECTURES | |
| REVIEWS | INTERVIEWS | |
| DRAMATIC PRESENTATIONS | PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS | |
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| 2005 to pres | Director, Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, Stanford University | |
| 1990 to pres | Professor, Department of History, Stanford University | |
| Fall 1996 | Distinguished Professor, Department of History, Emory University | |
| 1985 to pres | Editor and Director, Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project, Stanford University | |
| 1993 to 1994 | Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California | |
| Spring 1990 | Landmarks Scholar in History, American University, Washington, D. C. | |
| 1981 to 1990 | Associate Professor, Department of History, Stanford University | |
| 1982 to 1983 | Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of California, Berkeley | |
| 1974 to 1981 | Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stanford | |
| 1971 to 1974 | Acting Assistant Professor, Department of History, UCLA | |
| 1968 to 1971 | Computer Programmer, Survey Research Center (Institute for Social Science Research), UCLA | |
| 1966 to 1967 | Staff Writer, Los Angeles Free Press | |
| 1965 to 1966 | Editor, Audience Studies, Inc., Los Angeles | |
| 1962 to 1964 | Laboratory Assistant, University of California, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico (Summers) | |
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BOOKS |
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The Martin Luther King, Jr., Encyclopedia. Edited with Tenisha Armstrong, Susan Carson, Erin Cook, and Susan Englander. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2008. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume VI: Advocate of the Social Gospel, September 1948-March 1963. Edited with Susan Carson, Susan Englander, Troy Jackson, and Gerald L. Smith. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume V: Threshold of a New Decade, January 1959-December 1960. Edited with Tenisha Armstrong, Susan Carson, Adrienne Clay, and Kieran Taylor. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom. With Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner and Gary B. Nash. New York: Pearson Longman, 2005. [Abridged revised edition: The Struggle for Freedom: A History of African Americans. New York: Pearson Longman/Penguin Academics, 2007.] Civil Rights Chronicle: The African-American Struggle for Freedom. Primary Consultant. Lincolnwood, Illinois: Publications International, Ltd., 2003. Reporting Civil Rights. Part One: American Journalism 1941-1963 and Part Two: American Journalism, 1963-1973. Editorial advisor, with David Garrow, Bill Kovach, and Carol Polsgrove. New York: The Library of America, 2003. A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Edited with Kris Shepard. New York: Warner Books and Time Warner AudioBooks, 2001 (foreign language edition: Japanese). The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume IV: A Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958. Edited with Susan Carson, Adrienne Clay, Virginia Shadron, and Kerry Taylor. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King. Jr. Editor. New York: Warner Books and Time Warner AudioBooks, 1998. • Martin Luther King Autobiographie. Paris: Bayard Éditions, 1998 (Traduction et notes de Marc Saporta et Michèle Truchan-Saporta). • «I Have a Dream» L’autobiographia del profeta dell’uguaglianza. Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2000 (Traduzione di Tania Gargiulo). • Eu Tenho um Sonho: A Autobiographia de Martin Luther King. Lisboa: Editorial Bizâncio, 2003 (Tradução de Francisco Agarez) . Other foreign language editions: Finnish, Japanese, Korean. Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Edited with Peter Holloran. New York: Warner Books and Time Warner AudioBooks, 1998 (foreign language edition: French). The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Volume III: Birth of a New Age, December 1955 - December 1956. Edited with Stewart Burns, Susan Carson, Pete Holloran, Dana Powell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume II: Rediscovering Precious Values, July 1951-November 1955. Edited with Ralph E. Luker, Penny A. Russell, and Peter Holloran. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume 1: Called to Serve, January 1929-June 1951. Edited with Ralph E. Luker and Penny A. Russell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. American Voices: A History of the United States. With Carol Berkin, et al. Glenview, Illinois: Scott Foresman, 1992. Malcolm X: The FBI File. Edited with David Gallen. New York: Ballantine Books, 1995. (Originally published by Carroll & Graf, 1991). The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader. Edited with David J. Garrow, Vincent Harding, Darlene Clark Hine and Toby Kleban Levine. New York: Penguin Books, 1987; rev. ed., 1991. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981; 2nd Edition, 1995. • German edition: Zeiten des Kampfes: Das Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) und das Erwachen des afro-amerikanischen Widerstands in den sechziger Jahren (Aus dem Amerikanischen von Lou Marin). Nettersheim: Verlag Graswurzelrevolution, 2004). |
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JOURNAL ARTICLES |
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"The Fateful Turn Toward Brown v. Board of Education," Washington History 16 (Fall/Winter 2004-2005): 7-10. "Two Cheers for Brown v. Board of Education." Journal of American History 91 (June 2004): 26-31."African-American Leadership and Mass Mobilization." The Black Scholar 24 (Fall 1994): 2-7. "Martin Luther King, Jr., as Scholar: A Reexamination of His Theological Writings" (written with assistance from Peter Holloran et al.). Journal of American History 78 (June 1991): 93-105. "The Student Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Summary Statement on Research."Journal of American History 78 (June 1991): 23-40. "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Charismatic Leadership in a Mass Struggle." Journal of American History 74 (September 1987): 448-454. Reprinted in Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, edited by John A. Kirk (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007); The Leader's Companion: Insights on Leadership Through the Ages, edited by J. Thomas Wren (New York: The Free Press, 1995); Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American History, Volume II, edited by Larry Madaras and James M. So Relle (Guilford, Connecticut: Dushkin Publishing Group, 1989). "SNCC and the Albany Movement." Journal of Southwest Georgia History 2 (Fall 1984): 15-25. |
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"Memory, History, and the March on Washington," I Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Bring to Life Dramatic Events That Changed America. Edited by Byron Hollingshead. New York: Doubleday, 2006. "Challenging the Establishment, 1960-1969." In National Geographic Eyewitness to the 20 Century. Washington, D. C.: National Geographic Society, 1998. "Black-Jewish Universalism in the Era of Identity Politics." In Struggles in the Promise Land: Toward a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States, edited by Jack Salzman and Cornell West . New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. "Rethinking African-American Political Thought in the Post Revolutionary Era." In The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement, edited by Brian Ward and Tony Badger, 115-127. London: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1996. "A Season of Struggle." In A History of the African American People, 154-177. New York: Smithmark Publishers, 1995. "The Politics of Relations between African-Americans and Jews." In Blacks and Jews: Alliances and Arguments, edited by Paul Berman, 131-143. New York: Delacorte Press, 1994. "Martin Luther King, Jr., and the African-American Social Gospel." In African-American Christianity, edited by Paul E. Johnson, 159-177. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Reprinted African-American Religion: Interpretive Essays in History and Culture, edited by Tomothy E. Fulop and Albert J. Raboteau. New York: Routledge, 1997. Reprinted African American Religious Thought, edited by Cornel West and Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., 696-714. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003. "Editing Martin Luther King, Jr.: Political and Scholarly Issues." In Palimpsest: Editorial Theory in the Humanities, edited by George Bornstein and Ralph G. Williams, 305-316. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993. "Blacks & Jews in the Civil Rights Movement: The Case of SNCC." In Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews, edited by Jack Salzman, 36-49. New York: George Braziller, 1992. Earlier version published in Jews in Black Perspectives: A Dialogue, edited by Joseph R. Washington, Jr., 113-131. Rutherford, New Jersey.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Associated University Presses, 1984 and Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1989. "Reconstructing the King Legacy: Scholars and National Myths." In We Shall Overcome: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Black Freedom Struggle, edited by Peter J. Albert and Ronald Hoffman, 239-248. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990. Revised version of "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Charismatic Leadership in a Mass Struggle." "Civil Rights Reform and the Black Freedom Struggle." In The Civil Rights Movement in America, edited by Charles W. Eagles, 19-32. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1986. Reprinted in Interpretations of American History: Patterns & Perspectives, edited by Francis G. Couvares et al., eds. New York: Free Press, 2000. |
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REFERENCE BOOK ARTICLES |
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"African American Freedom Struggle," in Revolutionary Movements in World History, from 1750 to the Present, James V. DeFronzo, ed. (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006). "Ralph Abernathy," "Malcolm X," and "Martin Luther King, Jr.," in African American Lives, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). "Race, Rights and Reform," in Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, Mary Kupiec Cayton and Peter W. Williams, eds. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001). "Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee," in Organizing Black America: an Encyclopedia of African American Associations, Nina Mjahkij, ed. (New York: Garland Publishing, 2001). "Malcolm X" and "Martin Luther King, Jr.," in American National Biography, John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). "Martin Luther King, Jr." In The Oxford Companion to American Military History, John Whiteclay Chambers II et al., eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). "Martin Luther King, Jr. " In The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions, Jack A. Goldstone, ed. (Washington: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1988). "Martin Luther King, Jr." In Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women's Suffrage, Roger S. Powers and William B. Vogele, eds. (New York: Garland Publishing, 1997). "Black Panther Party for Self-Defense," "Martin Luther King, Jr.," and "Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee." In Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West, eds. (New York: Simon & Schuster MacMillian, 1996). "African Americans at War," "German-American Bund," (with Stephanie Brookins), and "Japanese Americans." In The Oxford Companion to the Second World War, I. C. B. Dear, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995). "Malcolm X." World Book Encyclopedia (Chicago: World Book Publishing, 1994). "African Americans." In Oxford Companion to Politics of the World, Joel Krieger, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993). "Dorothy Foreman Cotton" (co-author Stephanie Brookins)," "Coretta Scott King" (co-author Angela Brown), and "Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee" (co-author Heidi Hess). In Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, Darlene Clark Hine, ed. (New York: Carlson Publishing, 1993). "Civil Rights Movement." In Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, Supplement I, Leonard W. Levy, et al. , eds. (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1992). "Muhammad Ali," "Civil Rights Movement," "Jesse Jackson," and "Martin Luther King, Jr." In The Reader's Companion to American History, Eric Foner and John A. Garraty, eds. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991). "The Black Panther Party" (co-author David Malcolm Carson) In Encyclopedia of the American Left, Mari Jo Buhle et al eds. (New York: Garland Publishing, 1990). Reprinted in Civil Rights Since 1787: A Reader on the Black Struggle, Jonathan Birnbaum and Clarence Taylor, eds. (New York: New York University Press, 2000). "Black Freedom Movement." In Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris, eds. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989). "Stokely Carmichael," "Robert Moses," and "James Forman." In Biographical Dictionary of the American Left, Bernard Johnpoll and Harvey Klehr, eds. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1986). "Civil Rights Movement." In Encyclopedia of American Political History: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas, Vol. I., Jack P. Greene, ed. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984). "Blacks in the Americas--North America." In Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, Vol. 4. (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1983). |
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–68, by Taylor Branch.
The Historian 69 (Winter 2007).
The House I Live In: Race in the American Century, by Robert J. Norrell. Journal of American History 93 (June 2006). "Jim Crow's Enduring Legacy," review of From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality, by Michael J. Klarman. Stanford Law Review 57 (March 2005). Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940-1980, by Stephen G. N. Tuck. Journal of American History 89 (March 2003). Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65, by Taylor Branch. Dissent 45 (Summer 1998). "Malcolm X," film by Spike Lee, in Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies, edited by Mark C. Carnes, 278-282. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront, by Tony Martin. Journal of American History (March 1995). Malcolm X: Make It Plain, film by Orlando Bagwell and Judy Richardson. Journal of American History 81 (December 1994). Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom, by Richard H. King. American Historical Review 98 (October 1993). Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, by Andrew Hacker. Journal of American History 80 (June 1993). Blacks and Social Change: Impact of the Civil Rights Movement in Southern Communities, by James W. Button. Journal of American History 77 (December 1990). Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63, by Taylor Branch. Journal of Southern History 56 (August 1990). "Why the Poor Stay Poor." Review of The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy, by William Julius Wilson. Tikkun 3 (July/August 1988). "King Scholarship and Iconoclastic Myths."Review of Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, by David J. Garrow and To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr., by Adam Fairclough. Reviews in American History 16 (March 1988). Black History and the Historical Profession, 1915-1980, by August Meier and Elliot Rudwick. Journal of Southern History 53 (August 1987). The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change, by Aldon D. Morris. Constitutional Commentary 3 (Summer 1986). In Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks and Electoral Politics, 1965-1982, by Steven F. Lawson. Journal of American History 72 (December 1985). "From Garvey to Jackson." Review of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, edited by Robert A. Hill. Nation, 31 March 1984. Reprinted in Uncivil War: Race, Civil Rights & the Nation. New York: The Nation Press, 1995. Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960, by John Bodnar, Roger Simon, and Michael P. Weber. Journal of Negro History 68 (Winter 1983). "The Red and the Black." Nation, 29 October 1983. A Case of Black and White: Northern Volunteers and the Southern Freedom Summers, 1964-1965, by Mary Aickin Rothschild. Georgia Historical Quarterly 67 (Summer 1983). Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr., by Stephen B. Oates. Journal of American History 70 (June 1983). The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.: From "Solo" to Memphis, by David J. Garrow. American Historical Review 87 (October 1982). Dreams Die Hard, by David Harris. San Francisco Chronicle, 11 July 1982. A Search for Equality: The National Urban League, 1910-1961, by Jesse Thomas Moore, Jr. The Journal of American History 69 (June 1982). The Education of Black Philadelphia: The Social and Educational History of a Minority Community, 1900-1950, by Vincent Franklin. Journal of Negro History 66 (Autumn 1981). Automobile Age Atlanta: The Making of a Southern Metropolis, 1900-1935, by Howard L. Preston. Journal of Negro History 65 (Spring 1980). The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP, by James McPherson. Political Science Quarterly 91 (Winter 1977). Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman. Psychology Today, September 1974. |
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"Passages of Martin Luther King," international premiere by the National Theatre of China at Beijing Oriental Pioneer Theatre, June 21-24, 2007, directed by Wu Xiaojiang with Cao Li performing King. "Passages of Martin Luther King," presented as a dramatic reading at the Claremont Colleges, April 4, 2008 (with Aldo Billingslea performing King); the Rotunda Building, Oakland, January 25, 2007 (Aldo Billings); by National Theatre Company of China in Beijing on May 28, 2006 (under title "I Have a Dream "); at Stanford University on January 15, 2006 (Aldo Billingslea as King). Also presented at Princeton Theological Seminary, January 27, 2000; Utah Valley State College, January 24, 2000; Willamette University, January 21, 2000; University of Washington, Tacoma, January 15, 1998; University of Washington, Seattle, January 14, 1998; Dartmouth College, January 15, 1996; and Stanford University, January 17, 1994. "Martin Luther King, Jr., on War and Peace," one-actor dramatic reading adapted from "Passages of Martin Luther King," presented at Oakland's Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church on August 28, 2003 (Danny Glover) and at Stanford on February 19, 2003 (Aldo Billingslea). "Passages of Martin Luther King," docudrama, produced and directed by Victor Leo Walker, II, presented by Stanford Drama Department and Stanford Committee on Black Performing Arts, April 2, 3, 9, 10, 1993, at Stanford University's Dinkespiel Auditorium. |
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Lecturer, "African-American Freedom Struggle Lectures," YouTube Stanford Associate Producer and onscreen interviewee, "King's Last March," American RadioWorks, American Public Media. Associate Producer and historical advisor, Have You Heard from Johannesburg? Apartheid and the Club of the West (Connie Field/Clarity Films, 2007). Onscreen interviewee. 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America - June 21, 1964: Freedom Summer (The History Channel, 2006). Consultant and onscreen interviewee. Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power (The Documentary Institute, 2005). Onscreen interviewee, Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (First Run/Icarus Films, 2004). Onscreen interviewee. Martin Luther King -- Ein Staatsverbrechen. (Tag/Traum Film Production, 2004). Historical advisor. Citizen King (PBS DVD Video, American Experience, 2004). Historical advisor. Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (California Newsreel, 2002). Interviewer. "Of Songs, Peace, and Struggle": An Interview with James Forman (Smithsonian Institution, January 2002). On screen interviewee. The Most: March on Washington. (History Channel, November 2001). Co-editor. A Call to Conscience:The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Time Warner AudioBooks, 2001). Editor and Reader of Editor's Introduction. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Time Warner AudioBooks, 1998). Grammy Award winner for best documentary recording. Co-editor. A Knock at Midnight: Inspiritation from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. (Time Warner AudioBooks, 1998). Historical advisor and onscreen interviewee. Blacks and Jews (Snitow-Kaufman/California Newsreel, 1997). Historical advisor. Chicano! (National Latino Communications Center and Galán Productions, 1996) 1. Quest for a Homeland; 2. The Struggle in the Fields; 3. Taking Back the Schools; 4. Fighting for Political Power. Historical advisor. Freedom on My Mind (California Newsreel, 1994). American Historical Association and Organization of American Historians award for best documentary; nominated for Academy Award for best documentary feature. Senior historical advisor and co-editor of Reader. Eyes on the Prize: America at the Racial Crossroads -- 1965-1985 (Blackside, Inc./PBS Video, 1989) 1. The Time Has Come (1964-1965); 2. Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-1972); 3. Two Societies (1965-1968); 4. Power! (1967-1968); 5. The Promised Land (1967-1968); 6. A Nation of Law? (1968-1971); 7. The Keys to the Kingdom (1974-1980); 8. Back to the Movement (1979-mid 1980s). Senior historical advisor and co-editor of Reader. Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years (Blackside, Inc./PBS Video, 1986) Episode 1. Awakenings (1954-1956); 2. Fighting Back (1957-1962); 3. Ain't Scare of Your Jails (1960-1961); 4. No Easy Walk (1963); 5: Mississippi: Is This America? (1962-1964); Bridge to Freedom (1965). |
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MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS AND EDITIONS |
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"Martin Luther Kings Traum und Alptraum," Graswurzel Revolution, April 2008. Afterword, The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir, by Daisy Bates (Fayetteville, The University of Arkansas Press, 2007). "An Appreciation," in Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy: A Reader, Eric Foner and Manning Marable, eds. ( Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006). "A Remembrance of Coretta Scott King," Palo Alto Weekly , February 8, 2006. "Remembering Rosa Parks, 1913-2005: Mother of a Movement," Honolulu Advertiser, October 30, 2005. "1965: A Decisive Turning Point in the Long Struggle for Voting Rights," The Crisis 112 (July/August 2005). "Expert's Picks: Civil Rights," Washington Post Book World, April 24, 2005. "How Bloody Sunday at the Edmund Pettus Bridge Changed Everything," in The Unfinished Agenda of the Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights, the Editors of Black Issues in Higher Education with Dara N. Byrne, eds. (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2005). "The Unfinished Dialogue of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X," Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 7 (Winter 2005). "What Would King Do Now?" Ebony, January 2005. Talking about Martin Luther King, Jr.," Socialism and Liberation 2 (January 2005). [Guest editor of special Martin Luther King, Jr. Issue] "A Personal Journey to Understanding Martin Luther King, Jr.," "Paradoxes of King Historiography," "To Walk in Dignity: The Montgomery Bus Boycott," "Between Contending Forces: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the African American Freedom Struggle," "The Unfinished Dialogue of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X," and "Keeping the Dream Alive: The King Papers Project's Liberation Curriculum" (with Erin Cook), Organization of American Historians Magazine of History 19 (January 2005). "Long, Hot California Summers: The Rise of Black Protest and Black Power," in What's Going On?: California and the Vietnam Era, Marcia A. Eymann, and Charles Wollenberg, eds. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004). "March on Washington: A Look Back After 40 Years," San Francisco Chronicle, 24 August 2003. Foreword, Fighting for US: Maulana Karenga, the US Organization, and Black Cultural Nationalism, by Scot Brown (New York: New York University Press, 2003). "African American History Loses Three Past Masters," Organization of American Historians Newsletter 31 (May 2003). "Keeping the Dream Alive: The King Papers Project's Liberation Curriculum," with Erin Cook, in Poverty & Race 12 (January/February 2003). "A Scholar in Struggle," Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 4 (Spring 2002). "Martin Luther King, Jr., Speaks, " in A Time for Choices: Deep Dialogues for Deep Democracy, Michael Toms, editor (Canada: New Society Publishers, 2002). Foreword, The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Boundaries of Law, Politics, and Religion, Lewis V. Baldwin et al. eds. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002). "The Civil Rights Movement," in The Whole World's Watching: Peace and Social Justice Movements of the 1960s and 1970s (Berkeley: Berkeley Art Center Association, 2001). Section editor, "1945-1968," The Harvard Guide to African-American History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001). "The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Reclaiming His Legacy, An Activist, Not a Dreamer," San Jose Mercury News, January 16, 2000. "High Ideals and Troubling News," Media Studies Journal 12 (Fall 1998). "SNCC and the Practice of History," conference presentation, reprinted in Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, ed., A Circle of Trust: Remembering SNCC (New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1998). "A ‘Common Solution', Martin and Malcolm's Gulf Was Closing, but the Debate Lives on," Emerge, February 1998. "Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture: Courageous Warrior in an On-Going Struggle," Black Scholar 27 (Fall/Winter, 1997). "The Cambridge Convergence: How a Night in Maryland 30 Years Ago Changed the Nation's Course of Racial Politics" (with Tom Hamburger), Minneapolis Star Tribune, 28 July 1997. "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Crozer Seminary Years," Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 16 (Summer 1997) [adapted from Introduction, The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume I]. "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Morehouse Years," Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 15 (Spring 1997) [adapted from Introduction, The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume I]. "The Montgomery Story," San Francisco Examiner Magazine, 2 February 1997. "King Advocated Special Programs that Went Beyond Affirmative Action," San Jose Mercury News, 27 October 1996. "The Founding Fallacy: Is Multicultural Democracy Possible in America? Prognosis: Uncertain." San Francisco Examiner Magazine, 25 February 1996. "The Unexpected Emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr." Campus Report (Stanford), 17 January 1996. "The Boycott That Changed Dr. King's Life." New York Times Magazine, 7 January 1996. "Multiracial Democracy will require changes in behavior, political practices." Campus Report (Stanford), 30 August 1995. "Is Multiracial Democracy Possible?" The Commonwealth 89 (August 1995). "Rediscovering Martin Luther King's values." Campus Report (Stanford), 15 February 1995. Foreword. In The Black Panthers Speak, by Philip S. Foner. New York: Da Capo Press, 1995. "Malcolm X: The Deaths of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X Meant a Missed Chance for a Common Solution." San Francisco Examiner Magazine, 19 February 1995. "Passages of Martin Luther King," docudrama, produced and directed by Victor Leo Walker, II, presented by Stanford Drama Department and Stanford Committee on Black Performing Arts, April 2, 3, 9, 10, 1993, at Stanford University's Dinkespiel Auditorium. Also presented as dramatic reading at Dartmouth College, January 15, 1996. Introduction. In Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement, by David L. Chappell. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Introduction. Essays on the American Civil Rights Movement [The Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures], edited by W. Marvin Dulaney and Kathleen Underwood. College Station: Texas A. & M University Press, 1993. "Martin and Malcolm." Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 17 January 1993. "Historical Overview." Countdown to Eternity: an Exhibition of Photographs by Benedict J. Fernandez. Pittsburgh: Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, 1993. The Movement, 1964-1970. Edited with the staff of the Martin Luther King, Jr, Papers Project. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993. "Malcolm X: the Man and the Myth." San Francisco Examiner, 22 November 1992. "King's Ties to Atlanta Shaped His Career." Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 19 January 1992. "Documenting Martin Luther King's Importance -- and His Flaws." Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 January 1991. Introduction. The Student Voice, 1960-1965: Periodical of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Edited with the staff of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1990. 1989 Georgia Week Lecture: The Georgia Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr.[pamphlet] Atlanta: Georgia Humanities Council, 1990. Introduction. A Guide to Research on Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Modern Black Freedom Struggle. Occasional Publications in Bibliography Series, Number One, compiled by the staff of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project. Stanford, California: Stanford University Libraries, 1989. "SNCC and the Black Struggle." In The Recent Past: Readings on America since World War II, edited by Allan M. Winkler. New York: Harper & Row, 1989 [excerpted from In Struggle]. "The March, Revealing, Yet Obscuring." Baltimore Sun, 28 August 1988 "Once Inside, Can Jackson Contain Discontent Outside?" Pacific News Service, 25 July 1988. "A Middle-Class Picnic." Southern Exposure 16 (Summer 1988). "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Charismatic Leadership in a Mass Struggle." Journal of American History 74 (September 1987). Reprinted in Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in America History, edited by Larry Madaras and James M. SoRelle, Vol. 2. Guilford, Conn.: Dushkin Publishing Group, 1989. "The King Within Us All; 'Charismatic' Label Obscures His True Role and Legacy." Focus [Joint Center for Political Studies] 15 (January 1987). "Celebrate King's Achievement by Lifting the Shroud of Myth." Atlanta Constitution, 19 January 1987. Afterword. Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, by Mary King. New York: William Morrow, 1987. Introduction in "A Short History of American Attitudes About Poverty."(with Rebecca Lowen), In Poverty with a Human Face: Poverty, Justice and Equality in Contemporary United States, edited by Clayborne Carson. San Francisco: Public Media Center, 1985. "Rainbow Power: Threat or Opportunity." Pacific News Service, 22 July 1984. "Graduate Schools of Academic Historians: Trends in Hiring Patterns of Historians." AHA Perspectives 22 (November 1984): 10-13. "The Tax Revolt and Suburban-Urban Conflict." Courses by Newspaper series of University of California, San Diego. Reprinted in Humanities Network, Fall 1978. "The Environmental Problem: An Historian Comments." Humanities Network (December 1976). "The Hollow Prize; Black Power after Ten Years." Nation 223 (August 14-21, 1976): 111-115. [Reprinted in A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America, edited by William H. Chafe and Harvard Sitkoff. New York: Oxford University Press, 1st and 2nd ed., 1983, 1987. Pp. 147-154]. Numerous articles for The Los Angeles Free Press during period from 1965 through 1968. |
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HONORS AND AWARDS |
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| 2008 | Alphonse Fletcher, Sr., Fellowship, Non-resident Fellow at W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University | |
| Honorary Doctorate from Niagara University | ||
| 2007 | Honorary Doctorate from Morehouse College | |
| Commendation Resolution by California Legislative Black Caucus, California Assembly, Sacramento | ||
| 2004 | Gandhi King Ikeda Award, Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel, Gandhi Institute for Reconciliation, Morehouse College, Atlanta | |
| 2000 | Member of selected team in international design competition for the National Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial in Washington, D. C. | |
| 2000 | Founders Award for Historical Scholarship from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania | |
| 1998 | Jessie and John Danz Lectureship at the University of Washington | |
| 1995 | Honorary Doctorate from Pacific Graduate School of Psychology | |
| 1993-1994 | Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences | |
| Program of the Year Award for "Passages of Martin Luther King," Black Community Awards Committee of Stanford University | ||
| 1991 | Elected member of Society of American Historians | |
| Rosa Parks Distinguished Citizen Award, Martin Luther King, Jr., Association of Santa Clara Valley | ||
| 1986-87 | National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study and Research (declined) | |
| 1982 | Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians for In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960's | |
| 1981 | Research Grant from Spencer Foundation Education Research Seed Grant Program | |
| 1978 | Visiting Fellowship, Center for the Study of Civil Rights and Race Relations, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina | |
| 1977 | Andrew Mellon Fellowship | |
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PUBLIC LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS |
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| 2008 | May 17 | Graduate Commencement Address, Niagara University |
| April 22 | "The King We Hardly Knew," The Ohio State University, Mansfield, Ohio | |
| April 17 | "Gandhi and King," Keynote address for Conference on Global Legacies of Nonviolence, Oakton Community College, Skokie, Illinois | |
| April 11 | Participant in “World House: Connecting the Global Community,” Video Conference commemorating 40th Anniversary of assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. [Morehouse College, with University of Florida, Duke University, Stanford University] | |
| April 5 | "Economic Justice and King's Religious Calling," The Aurora Forum, Conference Global Solidarity, Human Rights, and the End of Poverty, Stanford University | |
| April 1 | King assassination anniversary event with Dorothy Cotton and Vincent Harding, Riverside Church, New York | |
| March 29 | "Forty Years Since King: Struggling to End Racism, Sexism, Poverty, and War" (panel) & "King Digital History Project: Using Primary Source Documents in the Classroom" (workshop), Organization of American Historians, Annual Meeting, New York | |
| February 14 | "The King We Hardly Knew," Culture, Spiritual Values and the Pursuit of Excellence in Higher Education, Symposium Celebrating the Inauguration of Robert Michael Franklin, Jr., Morehouse College, Atlanta | |
| February 5 | "The Legacy of Martin Luther King," Brentwood School, Los Angeles | |
| January 21 | "With Liberty and Justice for All" Annual Symposium, The Henry Ford Museum, Detroit | |
| January 19 | "Of God and Country: A Look at Faith and Social Justice," Conversation with Dr. Robert Franklin, Sponsored by Hands on Atlanta | |
| 2007 | November 20 | "Legacies of Martin Luther King, Jr. " United States Public Diplomacy Center, Brussels, Belgium |
| November 16 | "King’s non-violence and his vision for the 'beloved community'," with Mark Gonnerman, de boskant RK Spiritueel Centrum, the Hague, the Netherlands | |
| November 1 | "The Legacies of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel," Honoring Heschel at 100: An International Conference, Center for Jewish Studies, Baylor University, Waco, Texas |
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| October 19 | Conference on the 40th Anniversary of the March on the Pentagon and Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night, Georgetown University, Washington, DC | |
| October 16 | Keynote address, Fortieth Anniversary Celebration of King's Speech to Sacramento State, California State University, Sacramento | |
| October 12 | Stanford Reunion Homecoming, Classes without Quizzes, "Passages of Martin Luther King" in China | |
| September 26 | Convocation Speaker, KIPP: King Collegiate School, San Lorenzo, California | |
| June 18 | China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing | |
| June 15 | "Religion and Literature in the Life of King," School of Liberal Arts, Renmin (Peoples) University, Beijing | |
| June 14 | History Department, Peking University, Beijing | |
| March 29 | "Leadership in Black Higher Education," Benjamin E. Mays Lecture for 1st Annual Presidents Day at Morehouse College, Atlanta | |
| May 24 | "King: The Man and the Myth," Centre d’études nord-américaines (CENA), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris | |
| May 15 | "King and the Global Struggle for Peace with Social Justice," CENA, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris | |
| May 9 | "Was King a Christian," CENA, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris | |
| May 8 | "King and Global Struggle for Peace with Social Justice," Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands | |
| May 3 | "King and Modern African-American Freedom Struggle," CENA, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris | |
| February 23 | "King's Social Gospel & Struggle for Justice," Parent's Weekend at Stanford | |
| February 21 | Women's Club of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California | |
| February 20 | "The King We Hardly Knew," Bowie State University, Bowie, Maryland | |
| February 19 | "The King We Hardly Knew," Humanities Center, DePaul University, Chicago | |
| February 1 | "The King We Hardly Knew," Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana | |
| January 31 | "Martin Luther King, Jr., and His Legacy," Washington University in St. Louis | |
| January 15 | Keynote, Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Celebration, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles | |
| January 11 | "Martin Luther King, Jr., and His Legacy," North Carolina State University, Raleigh | |
| 2006 | July 26 | "King in Chicago: Reflections on the Movement," Fulfilling the Dream: 40th Anniversary Commenoration of the Chicago Freedom Movement, Harold Washington Cultural Center, Chicago |
| July 8 | "Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Global Liberation Movement," Official Opening Conference of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation: The Names on the Wall - the Individual, Power and Change, Hull, England | |
| June 7 | "The King Institute and the Future of the King Legacy," Stanford Alumni Club of Atlanta | |
| April 4 | "Affirmative Action in the U. S.," Universités à Sciences Po, Paris | |
| March 31 | "Affirmative Action in the U. S.," Université François Rabelais, Tours, France | |
| March 30 | Round table discussion, conference on Equal Opportunity and Diversity Promotion, sponsored by French-American Foundation and Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales de l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Paris | |
| March 29 | "Affirmative Action in the U. S.," Université D'Orléans, France | |
| March 27 | "Affirmative Action in the U.S." to invited French audience, U.S. Embassy in Paris | |
| March 19 | Keynote, Eightieth Anniversary Celebration of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, San Mateo Branch, California | |
| March 18 | Lecture/discussion, "The Social Aspects of Theatre and the Theatricality of Society," Theatre Research Institute, Peking University, Beijing, China | |
| March 17 | To graduate students of College of Liberal Arts, Shanghai University, Shanghai | |
| March 16 | Seminar for academics, artists, journalists and government officials at American Center for Educational Exchange, Jingguang Center, Beijing | |
| Online serminar/discussion, Sina.com web portal, Beijing | ||
| March 15 | Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr's Dream, American Center for Educational Exchange, Jingguang Center, Beijing | |
| March 3 | "The King Research and Education Institute: Teaching with Primary Sources," California Council for the Social Studies, 45th Annual Conference, San Diego | |
| February 22 | W. E. B. Du Bois Annual Lecture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | |
| January 18 | Keynote, King Commemorative Program, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge | |
| January 17 | Keynote, King Commemorative Program, National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC | |
| January 16 | Keynote, "Leader, Scholar, Theologian: The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.," Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, Center for Civic Leadership, The Belo Mansion, Dallas | |
| 2005 | November 3 | Symposium on Protesting Prejudice after the Holocaust: The American Experience. Roundtable on Civil Rights Activism as a Legacy of the Holocast, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC |
| October 1 | Sesquicentennial Symposium on Race, Repression, & Reconciliation, Berea College, Kentucky | |
| June 21 | Graduate School, Beijing International Studies University, China | |
| Xicheng District Library, Beijing | ||
| June 20 | Beijing Oriental School, Beijing | |
| Department of History, Peking University, Beijing | ||
| April 22 | Keynote, Collegium for African American Research, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France | |
| April 14 | Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecture, Edinboro University, Pennsylvania | |
| March 28 | Black Leadership Forum & C-SPAN, "What Would Our Ancestors Think of Us?" at National Press Club, Washington, D. C. | |
| February 24 | Western Addition Library, San Francisco | |
| February 7 | "The Contested Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.," Commonwealth Club of San Francisco | |
| February 2 | Fourth Malcolm X Festival, University of Nebraska, Omaha | |
| January 21 | New Mexico State University, Las Cruces | |
| January 19 | California Institute of Technology, Pasadena | |
| January 18 | Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana | |
| January 14 | King Holiday Celebration, Tresidder Union, Stanford University | |
| January 12 | Menlo School, Menlo Park, California | |
| 2004 | December 8 | Celebration for Emma Goldman Papers Project, International House, University of California, Berkeley |
| November 13 | Teaching American History Project symposium on Brown v. Board of Education, University of Nevada, Reno | |
| October 10 | Landestagung des Internationalen Versöhnungsbendes, Landesgruppe-Baden-Vürttemberg, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
| October 9 | Der Black Box, Kulturzentrum Gasteig, München | |
| October 8 | Frankfurt Buchmesse and The English Theatre Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main | |
| October 7 | Frankfurt Buchmesse 2004 | |
| October 6 | Deutsch-Amerikanishes Institut, Heidelberg | |
| October 5 | Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Dresden | |
| October 4 | Martin-Luther-King Zentrum, Verdau | |
| October 1 | Archiv Aktiv, Hamburg | |
| September 30 | John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin | |
INTERVIEWS |
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| 2008 | April 9 | "King's Last March," American RadioWorks, American Public Media |
| April 3 | "The Tavis Smiley Show," Public Radio International, recorded at Bishop Charles Mason Temple Church, Memphis | |
| March 29 | "Profiles of Excellence," KGO-TV, San Francisco | |
| February 26 | Interview met Prof. Carson, Samensteller van 'The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. ' kifkif.be | |
| January 21 | "Forum with Michael Krasny," KQED, San Francisco | |
| "Paul W. Smith Show," WJR Radio, Detroit | ||
| January 18 | The King Papers Project: An Interview with Clayborne Carson, The Chronicle of Higher Education | |
| January 15 | "News and Notes," NPR | |
| 2007 | September 12 | "Clay Carson on the Chinese Production of Passages of Martin Luther King," Stanford Report |
| June 23 | "All Things Considered," NPR | |
| February 12 | "The Tavis Smiley Show" | |
| January 19 | "The Michael Eric Dyson Show" | |
| January 15 | "Morning Edition," NPR | |
| January 15 | "The Tavis Smiley Show" | |
| January 2 | "Interfaith Voices" (Public Radio) | |
| 2006 | October 9 | "Talk of the Nation," NPR |
| January 31 | "Morning Edition," NPR | |
| January 16 | "The Tavis Smiley Show" | |
| 2005 | December 5 | "Morning Edition" NPR |
| October 25 | "News and Notes," NPR | |
| August 02 | "Talk of the Nation" NPR | |
| January 16 | "All Things Considered," NPR | |
| 2004 | January 19 | "Fresh Air," NPR |
| 2002 | January 2 | "Morning Edition" NPR |
| 2001 | November | "The March on Washington," on The Most, History Channel |
| January 15 | "Fresh Air," NPR | |
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS |
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American Academy of Religion American Historical Association |
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