UMass Library Celebrates Birthday of W.E.B. Du Bois
Clayborne Carson, Professor of History at Stanford University and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute will give a talk in honor of the birthday of W.E.B. Du Bois.
The Library marks Du Bois' birthday each year with a special event.
Since 1985, Dr. Carson has directed a long-term project to edit and publish the papers of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The King Papers Project has produced five volumes of a projected fourteen-volume comprehensive edition of King’s speeches, sermons, correspondence, publications, and unpublished writings. In addition to these volumes, Carson has written or co-edited numerous other works based on the papers.
Recently, Dr. Carson collaborated with Roma Design Group of San Francisco to create the winning proposal in an international competition to design a national King memorial in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Carson has lectured at many colleges and universities in the United States and abroad on a wide range of topics including King, SNCC, Malcolm X, the Black Panther Party, and Black-Jewish relations.
