Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter smiles during a book signing event in 2018. While running for Georgia governor in 1970, Carter courted pro-segregation white voters, but surprised many at his inauguration in 1971 by saying that “the time for racial discrimination is over.” (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
This story originally appeared on Georgia Recorder .
Jimmy Carter would chart a new course for the state at the start of his four-year term serving as Georgia’s governor when he used his inauguration address in 1971 to assert a public stand against the racial segregation that still maintained its popularity among many white Georgians…