Carter declared that he was no longer a Southern Baptist and threw his support behind a competing movement of moderates.

Yet in politics, he sometimes found himself cast an Old Confederacy racist, and he carefully managed relationships with erstwhile segregationists like Alabama Gov. George Wallace. “Jimmy Carter had as ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has ordered flags at state buildings and properties to temporarily go back to full staff Jan. 20 to ...

Jimmy Carter in visit Fort Myers ... hoping to drum up votes in his showdown with George Wallace of Alabama. This time, his entourage had grown in proportion to his popularity. He arrived by jet at ...

When he showed up at the Chicago Tribune one day in early 1976, James Earl Carter, Jr., was announced by one of our young ...

The political life of Jimmy Carter had several threads in Kentucky, which in turn influenced the state’s political and economic life. Perhaps the first major law Carter signed as president, and one ...

Eight states have ordered flags raised for Inauguration Day, even though it is customary to keep them lowered for 30 days ...

President Joe Biden had originally directed that flags were set to be flown at half-staff. In his proclamation about the ...

Governors in Iowa, Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Nebraska and Alabama will raise the flags to full ...

On that score, Jimmy Carter is not in the first rank of American presidents ... But he also met, conspicuously, with Alabama's segregationist Gov. George Wallace to accept his primary rival's ...