George Wallace Biographer to Speak at UA Feb. 20

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Professor Dan Carter, documentary adviser, author and editor, will give a talk on “George C. Wallace and the Art of Biography” on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in The University of Alabama Ferguson Theater as part of UA’s continuing Bankhead Lecture Series.

The public is invited to attend the free lecture by Carter, who is Educational Foundation Professor at the University of South Carolina.

From 1994-1996, Carter collaborated with film producers Paul Stekler and Dan McCabe in the production of “Settin’ the Woods on Fire: George Wallace and the Politics of the ’60s,” a documentary based on a biography of Wallace and broadcast last April on PBS’s “The American Experience.” Currently, Carter is an adviser for a number of upcoming films, including one on Jimmy Carter, and he is at work on a study of right-wing anti-government extremism in America.

Carter is the author and editor of more than 40 articles and half a dozen books, including “Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South,” “When the War was Over: The Failure of Self-Reconstruction in the South,” “The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of New Conservatism and the Transformation of American Politics,” and “From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994.”

In 1982, the Bankhead family established the Bankhead Endowment Fund to further the interests of historical research and scholarly activity within the history department in UA’s College of Arts and Sciences. In recent years, the family expanded the original commission to bring visiting lecturers to campus and to further promote the teaching and study of history.

Note: To arrange an interview with Professor Carter prior to the lecture, call 803/777-4287.