Clayborne Carson

Biography

Clayborne Carson is an acclaimed American history academic, educator, and scholar, born on June 15, 1944, in Buffalo, New York. Growing up near Los Alamos, New Mexico, with only a few African-American families in the community, sparked his lifelong interest in the Civil Rights Movement. He has since dedicated his career to the study and preservation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s papers, as the director of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project since 1985.