Dan T. Carter

Dan T. Carter (born 1940) is an American historian renowned for his works on the history of race relations and politics in the American South, including the Bancroft Prize-winning Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South, the Robert F. Kennedy Prize-winning The Politics of Rage (biography of George Wallace), and his latest Unmasking the Klansman: The Double Life of Asa and Forrest Carter (2023), [USC Profile]. A native of Florence, South Carolina, and professor emeritus at the University of South Carolina, he has received major awards like the Avery O. Craven Award and an Emmy for a PBS documentary on George Wallace, and served as president of the Southern Historical Association [Brevard NewsBeat].