Mattie Wright, a 73-year-old Albany resident, visited Plains Thursday to honor the late president’s push for racial equality — a lesson Jimmy Carter instilled in his son, Chip. Wright attended Georgia Southwestern University with Chip in the early 1970s. He used to talk with Wright and other Black students at the university’s student center.

Jimmy Carter, the first former American president to live to 100, arrived back in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. Before the trip home, the former president was memorialized at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday morning before Special Air Mission 39 at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland took his casket on its

Mourners gathered on Thursday in Plains, Georgia, to pay their last respects to former US President Jimmy Carter during the final day of his state funeral. The hearse carrying Carter's casket passed through his hometown on its way to the family cemetery after a private service at Maranatha Baptist Church.

We saw all five living presidents happily seated together, while we observers speculated as to what Republican President-elect Donald Trump and Democratic former President Barack Obama were joking about with each other.

In the winter of 1993, specifically February, my husband, Clarence, planned a trip to Florida, Alabama and Texas to visit relatives. Since we did not have a specific date to

In the flood of tributes following Jimmy Carter’s passing, one major aspect of his legacy was largely overlooked: his unwavering commitment to rural America. As the only president in modern history to hail from a small farming community,

A restaurant owner in Plains shares her experience on serving former President Jimmy Carter throughout the years.

Jimmy Carter will lie in repose at the Carter ... Payne reported from Plains, Georgia. Bill Barrow, based in Atlanta, has covered national politics including multiple presidential campaigns ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday ... The dual ceremonies in Washington and Plains, Georgia, provided a moment of national comity in a notably partisan era and offered ...

WASHINGTON — Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his ... regularly taught Sunday school in his native hamlet of Plains, Georgia, after leaving the White House. “He eliminated diseases ...

Karlene Marsh recounts her chance encounter with President Jimmy Carter during a 2006 road trip to Plains, Georgia.

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