College of Liberal Arts professor Dr. David Carter will discuss his new book, The Music Has Gone Out of the Movement: Civil Rights and the Johnson Administration, 1965-1968, at 3:00 pm on Thursday Sept. 24, 2009, in the Special Collections and Archives Department of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.
Carter, Associate Professor of History and History Department Graduate Program Officer, received his PhD from Duke University in 2001 and a BA with Highest Honors in History from the University of North Caro
lina at Chapel Hill in 1992.The Music Has Gone Out of the Movement is a study of the shifting relationships between the presidency of Lyndon Johnson and grassroots advocates of racial and economic equality. The book extends the traditional timeline of the civil rights movement beyond passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
This program is sponsored by the Auburn University Libraries, the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and the Auburn University Bookstore. A reception will follow the program, and copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. For more information on the program contact the Center at 334.844.4946 or cah@auburn.edu.
