During a time when racial segregation ruled the day, then-President Jimmy Carter appointed ... on Peachtree Creek. He was the governor, and Peachtree Creek flooded,” Young told Wilson.

A young Jimmy Carter was no stranger to gospel music growing up in the small rural town of Plains, Georgia during the ’20s and early ’30’. He heard it sung by Black tenant farmers working on ...

Former President Jimmy Carter's funeral services were held at the National Cathedral, attended by former presidents and ...

READ MORE | Jimmy Carter's final ... in office for four years. He left a huge legacy so we just wanted to pay our respects." Both were encouraged by the number of young people in line.

Since Jimmy Carter’s death ... his father’s service in World War I and his uncle’s Navy travels, he wanted, at a young age, to become a sailor. In high school, Carter played basketball ...

President Joe Biden, former presidents and other dignitaries are gathering at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, ...

“Jimmy Carter, for me, was something of a miracle.” Watch Young’s homily in the video above. Young recalled his disbelief that a president could hail from Plains, Georgia — a town he said ...

In 1975, political consultant Tim Kraft’s job was to turn “Jimmy who?” into Jimmy Carter, the bona fide presidential ...

Jimmy Carter played a key role in repairing one of North America’s early nuclear reactor disasters. He was a young Navy officer in the nation’s nascent nuclear-powered submarine program in ...

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

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the ... Mourners also heard from 92-year-old Andrew Young, a former Atlanta mayor, congressman and U.N ...