Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker demonstrates that racial segregation fostered not simply terror and violence, but also diversity, one of our most celebrated ideals. He investigates how prominent intellectuals like Robert Penn Warren, James Baldwin, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Flannery O’Connor, and Zora Neale Hurston found pluralism in Jim Crow, a legal system that created two worlds, each with its own institutions, traditions, even cultures.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

For two years an aging Dr. Horace Tate—a former teacher, principal, and state senator—told Emory University professor Vanessa Siddle Walker about his clandestine travels on unpaved roads under the cover of night, meeting with other educators and with Dr. King, Georgia politicians, and even U.S. Presidents. Thus began Walker’s sixteen-year project to uncover the network of educators behind countless battles—in courtrooms, schools, and communities—for the education of black children. This is their story.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

Acclaimed historian Ruby Lal uncovers the rich life and world of Nur Jahan, rescuing this dazzling figure from patriarchal and Orientalist clichés of romance and intrigue, and giving new insight into the lives of women and girls in the Mughal Empire, even where scholars claim there are no sources. Nur’s confident assertion of authority and talent is revelatory. In “Empress”, she finally receives her due in a deeply researched and evocative biography that awakens us to a fascinating history.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

In 1948 most white people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for the 10 million African Americans living in the South. But that suddenly changed
after Ray Sprigle, a famous white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and lived as a black man in the Jim Crow South. Author Bill Steigerwald elevates Sprigle’s groundbreaking exposé to its rightful place among the seminal events of the early Civil Rights movement.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

In “American Hate: Survivors Speak Out”, Arjun Singh Sethi, a community activist and civil rights lawyer, chronicles the stories of individuals affected by hate. In a series of powerful, unfiltered testimonials, survivors tell their stories in their own words and describe how the bigoted rhetoric and policies of the Trump administration have intensified bullying,discrimination, and even violence toward them and their communities.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

Spellman College President Mary Schmidt Campbell presents the definitive biography of one of the most important artists of the twentieth century and offers a view into the mind of a man whose art celebrated the traditions and ceremonies of African American culture.

Lecture

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

Originally published in 1959, “Crusader Without Violence” is Lawrence Reddick’s early biography of Dr. Martin Luther King. This 60th anniversary edition has a new introduction by Dr. Derryn Moten, professor of history and chair of the history and political science department at Alabama State University. “The republication of this book, with a new introduction by Dr. Derryn Moten, places in bold relief the possibility that it will remain the seminal work on the most celebrated religious and civil rights figure in twentieth century America.” — Dr. Lewis V. Baldwin, Professor, Vanderbilt University.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

Frye Gaillard gives us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller’s eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times – civil rights, black power, women’s liberation, the War in Vietnam, and the protests against it.

Film Screening/Discussion

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

The Carter Library and the Emory Institute for Developing Nations present a free screening of the film “Merci Congo”. ​The ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been called the “deadliest in the world since World War Two”. More than five million Congolese have died as the result of two decades of war. Millions more have been displaced. “Merci Congo” is a 90 minute exposé of the minerals trade and East Congo conflict. A discussion will follow the screening.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

In “AMERICAN FIX”, ​author Ryan Hampton discusses his own struggle with addiction, outlines the challenges that the recovery movement currently faces, and offers a concrete plan of action towards making America’s addiction crisis a thing of the past. Co-sponsored by the Davis Direction Foundation.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

Bestselling author, political analyst, and civil rights expert Juan Williams delivers a forceful critique of the Trump administration’s unprecedented rollback of the civil rights movement.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

Clint Harp, maverick carpenter on HGTV’s Fixer Upper and the star of Wood Work on the DIY Network, presents his inspirational memoir that celebrates meaningful work, turning your craft into a career, recognizing the importance of the journey itself and his family ties to President JimmyCarter.