Gittler, a sociologist who taught at Cardozo Law School and numerous leading universities. The $25,000 prize is a legacy of Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize, which he shared this year with Emory University Professor Emerita Frances Smith Foster, who delivered her prize lecture in November. “It has been the great task of my life to reconcile these opposing views,” Clayborne Carson, professor of history and director of Stanford University’s Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, said during a lecture in Rapaporte Treasure Hall.įinally, Carson said, he came to the understanding that King was not a civil rights leader, but a prophet, and his vision was not for Montgomery, Alabama, or the United States, but for all humanity.Ĭarson was at Brandeis to accept the Joseph B. spent much of his career puzzling over the apparent conflict between the civil rights movement as a grassroots, bottom-up phenomenon and the top-down movement that it became. The foremost scholar of the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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