02/24/2023
Join Luca Falciola, as he discusses his book Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers and Social Movements, 1960s-1970s with Clayborne Carson on March 9th (5 PM ET).
Luca Falciola is a lecturer in History at Columbia University. He specializes in the history of social movements, radicalism, and political violence during the Cold War. His publications include an award-winning book on The Movement of 1977 in Italy (Carocci, 2015) as well as articles and essays on various aspects of leftist politics in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the USA. After earning a PhD in History at Sciences Po, Paris, he held research appointments at the Catholic University of Milan, Yale University, New York University, and the European Institute at Columbia.
He is the author of Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers and Social Movements, 1960s-1970s (University of North Carolina Press, 2022). As protest movements took to the streets during the 1960s and 1970s, a group of lawyers joined forces with America's most confrontational activists. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, historian Luca Falciola reconstructs this largely unmapped phenomenon and challenges the reader to think anew about the pivotal role of lawyers in social movements.
Clayborne Carson has devoted his professional life to the study of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the African-American freedom struggle. Since receiving his doctorate from UCLA in 1975, Dr. Carson has taught at Stanford University, where he is now Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial professor of history and Ronnie Lott founding director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute. Carson's publications include In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (1981); Malcolm X: The FBI File (1991); African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom (2005, co-author); and a memoir, Martin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). In 1985, the late Coretta Scott King invited Dr. Carson to direct a long-term project to edit and publish the papers of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Under Carson’s direction, the King Papers Project has produced seven volumes of an ongoing comprehensive edition of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. In 2005, Carson founded the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute to endow and expand the work of the King Papers Project.
Join Luca Falciola, as he discusses his book Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers and Social Movements, 1960s-1970s with Clayborne Carson.
