Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Life
Graphic

The Two Lives of Asa Carter

Robert W. Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images.


Former Klansman Asa Carter was a segregationist
speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace. He most infamously penned the words ”segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever“ delivered by Wallace during his 1963 inaugural address.

Forrest Carter was a Cherokee novelist who grew up in Tennessee. His autobiography, The Education of Little Tree, is a beloved classic that has sold millions of copies worldwide. The two men could not have been more different, except they weren’t.

 

The full transcript of this episode is available here.

 

Comments are closed.

You may also like ...

Graphic

The Art (and Science) behind Teenage Diaries

A video of Joe’s talk at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism about producing Teenage Diaries Revisited.

Listen
Graphic

Holiday Party for the Mandela Archives!

Join us on December 9 at 7 PM to celebrate the life of Nelson Mandela and help preserve our audio archive of the struggle against apartheid. We’re hosting a holiday party with CultureHorde at Brooklyn’s Madiba Restaurant. Tickets are $75 and they include South African food and wine. There will be dancing!

Listen
css.php