| Dalia Saad |
An American academic, who is a professor of history at Stanford University and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute. He was born on June 15, 1944, in Buffalo, New York. Carson was raised near Los Alamos, New Mexico, where his family was one of a small number of African-American families, an experience to which he attributes his lifelong interest in the civil rights movement. He attended the University of New Mexico for his first year of college during the 1962-1963 academic year. At the age of 19, at a national student conference in Indiana, he met Stokely Carmichael, who persuaded him to attend the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1964, Carson transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and continued with SNCC. He changed his field of study from computer programming to American history, earning his B.A. in 1967 and his M.A. in 1971. He also wrote his doctoral thesis on Stokely Carmichael and SNCC, earning a Ph.D. in 1975. While studying at UCLA, he also participated in the protests against the Vietnam War. His credits include I Am MLK Jr. (2018), Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine (2014), and The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2013).
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