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 ...
As we absorb the many tributes written upon the death of former President Jimmy Carter, younger Americans born after his ...
In 1979, former President Jimmy Carter oversaw the creation of the modern U.S. Department of Education – an accomplishment the Biden administration has hailed as a hallmark of Carter's legacy in ...
Board of Education to recreate the whites-only education environment racist parents preferred. But it didn't matter. Evangelical leaders hated Carter because he was publicly anti-racist and ...
I first met Jimmy Carter more than 50 years ago in California. It was at a small fundraiser hosted by a good Monterey ...
When tempted to make political predictions, I always think of President Jimmy ... comeback. Carter, an ex-Navy officer and peanut farmer in little Sumter County, started as a school board member ...
In his announcement speech for his presidential run, in 1974, Georgia Governor Jimmy ... Carter pushed through comprehensive energy legislation. He created the Department of Education; deregulated ...
In late October 2014, as Jason Carter ran for governor, President Jimmy Carter made a quickly ... the former president support of education in underserved areas of our state, his family’s ...