Asa Earl Carter
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Asa Earl Carter (September 4, 1925 – June 7, 1979) was a Ku Klux Klan leader, segregationist speech writer, and later western novelist.
He co-wrote George Wallace's 1963 pro-segregation book "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever," and ran in the Democratic primary for governor of Alabama on a segregationist ticket.
Years later, Under the alias of allegedly-Cherokee writer Forrest Carter, he wrote The Rebel Outlaw (1972), a Western novel that culminated in the production of a 1976 National Film Registry film, and The Education of Little Tree (1976), a best-selling, award-winning book that was not a memoir but turned out to be fiction. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), a Southerner Asa Carter, was arrested in 1976, following the success of The Rebel Outlaw and its film adaptation.
His biography made national news in 1991 after his ostensible memoir, The Education of Little Tree (1976), was re-issued in paperback, topped the Times best-seller lists (both non-fiction and fiction), and received the American Booksellers Book of the Year (ABBY) award. Carter was politically active in Alabama for years as an opponent of the civil rights movement, as well as an independent Ku Klux Klan party, and began The Southerner, an independent offshoot of the White Citizens' Council movement.
Early life
In 1925, Asa Carter, the second eldest of four children in Anniston, Alabama, was born. Despite later claims (as author "Forrest" Carter) that he was orphaned, he was raised by his parents Hermione and Ralph Carter in nearby Oxford, Alabama. Both parents lived into Carter's adulthood.
Carter served in the United States Navy during World War II and spent a year at the University of Colorado on the G.I. Bill is a bill that was not included in the original draft. He married India Thelma Walker after the war, 114 years ago. The couple lived in Birmingham, Alabama, and had four children.
Career
Carter served at many radio stations in the Birmingham area before settling at station WILD, where he served from 1953 to 1955. Before the show was cancelled, Carter's radio shows from WILD, which had been sponsored by the American States Rights Association, were syndicated to more than 20 radio stations. Following community outrage over his radio broadcasts and a boycott of WILD, Carter was fired. 114 Carter dissatisfied with the Alabama Citizens' Council's leadership after the incident. He refused to tone down his anti-Semitic rhetoric, while the Citizens' Council preferred to concentrate more on preventing racial segregation against African Americans.: 116
The North Alabama Citizens' Council, Carter's renegade group, formed a group called the North Alabama Citizens' Council. During those years, Carter operated a gas station in addition to his work in television and politics. 116 Segregation activists became national news by March 1956, as a spokesman for segregation. Carter was quoted in a UP newswire story claiming that the NAACP had "infiltrated" Southern white teenagers with "immoral" rock and roll records. Carter has ordered that jukebox owners delete all information obtained from jukeboxes.
After giving an inflammatory anti-integration address in Clinton, Tennessee, Carter made national news on September 1 and 2 of the same year. He spoke to Clinton about his high school enrollment of 12 black students, and after his address, an enthralled crowd of 200 white men barred black drivers from passing through, "ripping out hood ornaments and smashing windows." They were supposed to the mayor's house before being turned back by the local sheriff. Carter appeared in Clinton alongside segregationist John Kasper, who was arrested with sedition and inciting a riot later that month for his conduct that day. Carter ran for a position on the Birmingham City Commission as the Commissioner of Public Safety against former office holder Eugene "Bull" Connor, who won the election in 1957. The only competitive campaigning for the Democratic Party primary was done during this period of polls and segregation. Connor went on to become nationally recognized for his tough-handed approach to law enforcement during Birmingham's civil rights protests. Carter sat out some of Connor's "white lower vote" but finished last in the primary, an indication that his style was increasingly offensive to Alabama's "respectable" segregationists.
Carter and his brother James were jailed in 1957 for fighting against Birmingham police officers. The police were trying to arrest another of the six people in their group, who was alleged of a alleged Ku Klux Klan (KKK) attack. Carter established the "Original Ku Klux Klan of the Confederacy" in the mid-1950s. Carter founded The Southerner, a monthly magazine dedicated to ostensibly scientific claims of white racial hegemony as well as anti-Communist rhetoric.: 115
At a Birmingham concert in April 1956, members of Carter's new KKK party assaulted singer Nat King Cole. 115 Members of Carter's Klan clan abducted and assaulted Judge Edward Aaron, a black handyman from September 1957. Aaron was castrated, poured turpentine on his wounds, and left him dead in a vehicle near Springdale, Alabama. Aaron was discovered near death from blood loss, according to police. (Carter was not with the man who started the shooting). 115 Four of the six guys were found guilty of mayhem and sentenced to twenty years in prison, but a parole board, which was established by Carter's then-employer Alabama governor George Wallace, commuted their sentences in 1963.: 115
Carter resigned from the Klan organization he had founded in 1958 after shooting two members in a financial dispute. Carter was charged with attempted murder charges against him, but the charges were later dropped. 114 Carter also ran for lieutenant governor in the same year that saw him finish fifth in a field of five.
Carter served as a speechwriter for Wallace in the 1960s. He was one of two men credited with Wallace's famous phrase, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever," a Wallace's 1963 inaugural address. Carter continued to work for Wallace, and after Wallace's wife Lurleen was elected Governor of Alabama in 1966, Carter served for her. Wallace never understood the role played by Carter in his political career:
As Wallace entered national politics in 1968 as he attempted to paint a segregationist firebrand. Carter became disillusioned by what he saw as Wallace's liberal turn on race in the late 1960s.
On a white supremacist platform, Carter ran against Wallace for governor of Alabama in 1970. Carter came last in a field of five candidates, winning just 1.5 percent of the vote in an election barely won by Wallace over more centrist governor Albert Brewer. At Wallace's 1971 inauguration, Carter and some of his allies protested against him, with signs displaying "Wallace is a bigot" and "Free our white children." It was "Asa Carter"'s last public appearance at a protest.
Literary career and death
Carter relocating to Abilene, Texas, where he started losing the election. He began working on his first book after spending days researching in Sweetwater's public library. After Nathan Bedford Forrest, a general of the Confederate army who served in the Civil War and the first leader of the Ku Klux Klan, he distanced himself from his past.
Carter migrated to St. George's Island, Florida, in the 1970s, where he wrote a sequel to his first book as well as two books on American Indian themes. Carter separated from his wife, who lived in Florida. In the late 1970s, he returned to Abilene, Texas, where he had been stationed there in the late 1970s.
Josey Wales (1972, republished in 1975 as Gone to Texas) and The Education of Little Tree (1976), Carter's best-known fictional works, were The Rebel Outlaw (1972, the latter book being released as a memoir. Despite the fact that Little Tree did modestly during Carter's life and death, a reprint of the book became a sleeper hit.
After Carter sent the book to his offices as an unsolicited request, Clint Eastwood wrote and starred in a film version of Josey Wales (1976), Eastwood's partner read and cried for it. At this time, neither man knew of Carter's history as both a Klansman and a rabid segregationist. A film adaptation was produced in 1997 after the success of the paperback version of The Education of Little Tree. It was originally planned as a made-for-TV film and was released theatrically.
Josey Wales' sequel to The Rebel Outlaw was intended by Clint Eastwood as a film project, but it was ultimately shelved. Watch for Me on the Peak (1978) by the author is a fictionalized biography of Geronimo. In 1980, it was reprinted in a print titled Cry Geronimo!
When Carter died in Abilene on June 7, 1979, he was working on The Wanderings of Little Tree, a sequel to The Education of Little Tree, as well as a a screenplay version of the novel. The cause of death, which was described as a heart failure, was believed to have arisen from a fistfight with his son. Carter's body was returned to Alabama for burial near Anniston.