Comment on How Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Election Victory Helped ‘Heal Ancient Wounds’ of Racism

How Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Election Victory Helped ‘Heal Ancient Wounds’ of Racism

The career of Jimmy Carter, the U.S. President who died on Dec. 29 at age 100, will be remembered for many things: his peanut-farming background, his speedy rise to political fame and fall after one term, his handling — or mishandling — of the energy crisis and the Iran hostage crisis. Another achievement, from early in his career, may be less well known, but is just as worthy of remembrance. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] [video id=pf0TUDlq autostart="viewable"] The mid-1970s, when Carter became a national public figure, was a time of transition, full of the aftershocks of the progress and devastation that had characterized the previous decade, not least in the arena of the civil rights movement.

 

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