3ways jimmy carter the state of georgia

Southern man Jimmy Carter flipped Georgia from a white supremacist state to one where every citizen was equal. Of course, he had help from other, now-famous Georgians — Andrew Young, Atlanta’s first black mayor; Rep. John Lewis; and Martin Luther King — and ones whose acts of principle went mostly unnoticed.

Similar transitions played out in those years in every county courthouse and state capital in the South. Jim Crow was buried, a better South was born, and it was Southern men – black and white – who did most of the heavy lifting.

i confess that there are several parts of this constitution which i do not at present approve, but i am not sure i shall never approve them: for having lived long, i have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which i once thought right, but found to be otherwise. it is therefore that the older i grow, the more apt i am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.

no because we were not ready for war