Dr.
David C. Carter
Project Consultant for Civil Rights Content
Email: cartedc@auburn.edu
Associate
Professor, Department of History
Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Dr.
Carter serves as a Project Consultant for Civil Rights Content
and has functioned as a liaison between members of the Advisory
Board and Project co-Directors. He works as a collaborative
editor for materials incorporated in the African-American
Civil Rights Movement Decision Point! database and strives
to ensure historical accuracy and the incorporation of multiple
evidentiary perspectives.
Dr.
Carter's research interests are in the history of the civil
rights movement, the history of the American South since
the Civil War, and U.S. history since 1945. He is particularly
interested in the role of race and ideology in shaping American
history. Carter is the author of "The Williamston Freedom
Movement: Civil Rights at the Grass Roots in Eastern North
Carolina, 1957-1964," an article in the North Carolina
Historical Review (January, 1999), which won the Robert
Diggs Wimberly Connor Award given by the Review for the
best article published in that journal in the preceding
year. He has also written articles on civil rights leaders
Andrew Young and Julian Bond in the two-volume reference
collection Civil Rights in the United States, edited by
Waldo Martin and Patricia Sullivan. His book manuscript,
currently under revision, examines shifting relationships
between the presidency of Lyndon Johnson and the civil rights
movement in the three years following passage of the Voting
Rights Act in 1965.
Prior
to coming to Auburn in 2000, Dr. Carter taught at Bates
College in Lewiston, Maine and Duke University in Durham,
North Carolina.
Dr.
Carter teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses at
Auburn University and has participated in two workshops
for high school teachers for the PIH workshop. His Auburn
courses cover American history, world history, African American
history, the history of American protest, the history of
American anti-communism, and various historical aspects
of the civil rights movement in America.
Dr.
Carter received his Ph.D. in history from Duke University
in 2001.