When Plains Baptist Church voted overwhelmingly in the 1950s to bar Blacks and “racial agitators” from membership, Jimmy Carter and a handful of his family members

Mr. Carter witnessed a shift from what had been a solidly Democratic South to one that Republicans, supported by white voters and particularly evangelicals, came to dominate.

The late U.S. president was remembered during his state funeral as a man who put honesty and kindness above partisan politics.

Chris Matthews, who was a speechwriter for former President Jimmy Carter, and Jonathan Alter, author of “His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life,” join Andrea Mitchell to speak about the 39th president’s support for the civil rights movement,

Tributes are underway in Washington for former president Jimmy Carter ahead of his state funeral on Thursday. Over the next 24 hours Carter will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol where many Americans will brave the cold to pay their respects to the late president.

Jimmy Carter, a U.S. president who served only one term but was widely admired for his humanitarian work after leaving the White House, was remembered during his state funeral on Thursday as a man who put honesty and kindness above partisan politics.

President Jimmy Carter served as an example to countless patients with a terminal illness and their families as they decided whether to pursue hospice care.