As we absorb the many tributes written upon the death of former President Jimmy Carter, younger Americans born after his ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at 100 ... Carter was appointed to a vacancy on the Sumter County board of education in 1955, just one year after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday ... Carter also promoted higher education in Middle Georgia, initially elected to serve on the Mercer University Board of Trustees in 2012.

Common conceptions of Carter are all wrong because they don’t acknowledge a crucial reality: he was a conservative.

Decades ago, Jimmy Carter engineered the creation of the modern Education Department. On the heels of his death, the agency's future is threatened.

Jimmy Carter at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta ... end school segregation even after the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, despite his private support for integration.

As we mourn the death of President Jimmy Carter ... cancer, Carter quit the Navy to save the family’s peanut farm from bankruptcy. He entered politics at the school board level and then as ...