The summer after he was sworn in as president, Jimmy Carter flew to Mississippi ... firmly and finally extinguishing George Wallace as a political force and assembling a fearsome, if fleeting ...

Sanders said Carter “ran a mean, dirty, disgustingly racist campaign.” Murphy told me that, “Jimmy isn’t racist, but he positioned himself as a pro-George Wallace, pro-Lester Maddox ...

George Wallace in the March 1976 Democratic primary ... referring to the Alabamian’s primary win here in 1972. “I heard about Jimmy Carter, and he seemed like a moderate Democrat from a ...

George Wallace. “Jimmy Carter had as strong a rural, south-Georgia accent as anybody I know,” recalled Andrew Young, a King aide in the 1960s who would become a congressman, Atlanta mayor, ...

Jimmy Carter during the Democratic National Convention ... He broke the party’s old segregationist wing by defeating Alabama Gov. George Wallace. He beat the party’s liberal wing, whose ...

At one campaign event, Sanders got up and said, “Jimmy Carter has hired a slick advertising ... for saying he would allow segregationist George Wallace to speak at the Georgia statehouse ...

On the surface, Carter and Johnson could not be more different ... was able to secure the support of ardent segregationist George Wallace and Martin Luther King Sr in his 1976 race.