Stanford and the Twentieth Century





Martin Luther King, Jr.



Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister and civil rights activist. He delivered some of the best-known speeches of the twentieth century, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He gave a major speech at Stanford in 1967.


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Clayborne Carson



Clayborne Carson is a professor at Stanford and the director of the university’s King Center. He is the bestselling author of Martin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr and was entrusted by Coretta Scott King to edit Martin’s autobiography.



Daniel Rey



Daniel Rey is a writer, presenter and media producer currently based in New York.


For Daniel’s writing on King, see ‘Prophet, Priest and King: Understanding the real MLK’, published in the Spectator in January 2019.


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