Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100, spent his life intertwined with America’s and the world’s enduring legacy of slavery.

As a legislator, governor, president and ex-president, he confronted the prejudices that were so much a part of where and when he grew up. His life and deeds hold many lessons for today’s public officials.

Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, welcomed the family to the White House in 1977 to present Coretta Scott King with a posthumous Medal of Freedom for her husband—the first federal recognition of ...

Jimmy Carter spent his life intertwined with America’s and the world’s enduring legacy of slavery. His approach revealed a dualism in Carter that pitted his personal ambitions and political pragmatism

Before his public career, Carter and his wife Rosalynn, who died in November ... posts and formed a friendship with King's parents and his widow, Coretta Scott King. Taking his Georgia strategy ...

FILE - Dr. Martin Luther King Sr., Rosalynn Carter, President Jimmy Carter, Coretta Scott King, Christine Parris King, sister of the late Dr. King, and U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young sing during a ...

Before his public career, Carter and his wife Rosalynn, who died in ... key posts and formed a friendship with King’s parents and his widow, Coretta Scott King. Reaching for the White House ...

In the wake of Dr. King's death in 1968, several notable figures found ways to honor him and aid in the push for MLK Day. By the late 1970s, President Jimmy Carter pledged his support of the ...

Coretta Scott King, Andrew Young, and other civil rights leaders saw Carter as someone who could carry the movement ... Over four decades, he and his wife Rosalynn partnered with Habitat for Humanity, building thousands of homes for needy families.

A look back at the life of 39th President Jimmy Carter ... King assembled scraps of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s writing to create a crucial document of the civil rights movement. 3:10 Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta ...

The first Martin Luther King Jr. Day was January 20, 1986. Coretta Scott King, the wife of Dr. King, had a great idea in the year prior to the first observance of the federal holiday.

Meagan Good compared her relationship with Jonathan Majors to that of Martin Luther King Jr.'s romance with Coretta Scott King as she appeared on ‘The Breakfast Club’ on Jan. 17. The actor has previously compared himself and Good to MLK Jr.