Asa Earl Carter

Asa Earl Carter (September 4, 1925–June 7, 1979) was a speechwriter to Governor George Wallace of Alabama; and, under the pseudonym Forrest Carter, an American novelist.

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Asa Carter was born September 4 1925, was raised in a white family in Oxford, Alabama and attended the local primary school. Later in life Carter was a radio announcer for the American States Rights Association.

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Carter has been credited as the author of the memorable line from Wallace's first gubernatorial inaugural address, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."

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Although Carter falsely claimed to be part Cherokee, he was the publisher of a white supremacist newspaper and a leader in the Ku Klux Klan. It was under the white supremacist platform that Carter made an unsuccessful 1970 bid for governor of Alabama. He had edited the white supremacist publication The Southerner and was active in the white supremacist organizations at the time his novels were being published. He had expressed hate of Jews and African-Americans.

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Carter's best-known fictional works are Gone to Texas: The Rebel Outlaw Josey Wales (1973) and The Education of Little Tree (1977). Clint Eastwood directed and starred in a 1976 film adaptation of the former, retitled "The Outlaw Josey Wales". In 1997, "The Education of Little Tree" was adapted into a made-for-TV movie.

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