Clayborne Carson is Director and Senior Editor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project. A history professor at Stanford University, he is the author of "In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s "(1981), and editor of "Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr". (1998) and "Malcolm X: The FBI File" (1991).