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's funeral proceedings began Saturday in Americus, Georgia, at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center. After the casket was loaded into the hearse by current and former Secret Service agents who protected the late president,

PLAINS, Ga. — Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter began Saturday in Georgia ... at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus. Former Secret Service agents who ...

"I was immediately struck by how young he looked — not the drawn and pale president I had seen on TV, reporting on the hostage crisis that you could tell