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Santa Barbara, California, Oct. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Clayborne Carson, the world-renowned and acclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. scholar and director of the King Papers Project, speaks at Westmont’s Mosher Center for Moral and Ethical Leadership luncheon on Friday, Nov. 4, from 12-1:30 p.m. in the Simmons Center of Westmont’s Global Leadership Center. Carson will present “The Lives and Shared Legacy of Coretta Scott and Martin Luther King Jr.” A limited number of tickets, which cost $50 per person, are available for purchase at westmont.edu/mosher-event. For more information, please call (805) 565-7251 or email specialevents@westmont.edu.
“Nobody knows the words and writings of Dr. King better than Dr. Carson,” says President Gayle D. Beebe. “His inspirational work has deepened the nation’s appreciation for King’s profound insights, prolific pastoral voice, courageous personal sacrifices and wisdom. I’ve always deeply appreciated his transformative work, the life-changing leadership he modeled, and his writings and teachings. We’re honored to bring Dr. Carson to campus and hear his unique perspective on our country’s most prominent civil rights leader. We look forward to sitting in a front-row seat to learn from him.”
Dr. King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, handpicked Carson in 1985 to help our country carry out King’s legacy. A professor emeritus of history at Stanford University, Carson has directed the King Research and Education Institute, a cooperative venture of Stanford, the King Center, and the King Estate to publish the definitive 14-volume edition of “The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr.,” a collection of his most significant correspondence, sermons, speeches, published writings and unpublished manuscripts.
The seven volumes already published have become essential reference works for researchers, influencing scholarship about King and the movements he inspired that eventually cost him his life and…
