{"id":104860,"date":"2023-06-13T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=104860"},"modified":"2023-06-13T13:44:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T17:44:03","slug":"jimmy-carters-early-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/jimmy-carters-early-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Carter\u2019s Early Life: Humble Beginnings in Plains, GA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What were Jimmy Carter&#8217;s parents like? Why did he speak with an African-American accent as a child?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jimmy Carter made it to the White House\u2014a far cry from where he began. In the book <em>His Very Best<\/em>, biographer Jonathan Alter paints a vivid picture of Carter&#8217;s formative years that set the stage for an extraordinary life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to learn about Jimmy Carter\u2019s early life and how it shaped him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-jimmy-carter-s-early-life\">Jimmy Carter\u2019s Early Life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Jimmy Carter\u2019s early life reflects one of the most humble beginnings of any modern US president. His rural background and strict upbringing planted the seeds of discipline, honesty, and compassion for others that would grow to define him later in life. Alter describes Carter\u2019s early life in a world much different from today\u2019s while detailing how the values of Carter\u2019s parents and those of the US Navy, where Carter served, shaped his outlook and personality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>James Earl Carter was born in 1924 in the town of Plains, Georgia,<\/strong> where there was no electricity or running water in his family\u2019s home. Young Carter grew up working shoulder-to-shoulder with the African-American laborers his father employed on their farm. It was a time of strict <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/racial-segregation\/\">racial segregation<\/a>, yet, during the early years of his life, Carter\u2019s family were the only white people he knew. When he started school, Carter\u2019s white classmates mocked him for speaking with an African-American accent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Plains, in Georgia\u2019s southwestern quarter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgiaencyclopedia.org\/articles\/counties-cities-neighborhoods\/plains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was founded in 1827<\/a> on land taken from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscogeenation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Muskogee (Creek) Nation<\/a> but wasn\u2019t incorporated until 1896. Its population has barely grown since Carter\u2019s childhood, with only 573 residents as of the 2020 US Census. Though predominantly agricultural, Plains\u2019 chief source of income today is tourism centered around the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/nr\/travel\/presidents\/jimmy_carter_nhs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jimmy Carter National Historical Park<\/a>, which covers the old Carter family farm, the high school he attended, and the railway station from which Carter launched his presidential campaign. <a href=\"https:\/\/worldpopulationreview.com\/us-cities\/plains-ga-population\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Plains\u2019s population declined sharply<\/a> between the censuses in 2010 and 2020, and <a href=\"https:\/\/censusreporter.org\/profiles\/16000US1361628-plains-ga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its current demographic makeup is majority African-American<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carter\u2019s father, James Sr., was a strict taskmaster who had perfectionist standards and never gave praise. Alter says that, <strong>from his father, Carter learned the values of discipline, hard work, and truthfulness,<\/strong> <strong>while, from his mother, he learned compassion.<\/strong> In the American South of the 1920s and \u201930s, Lillian Carter was much more progressive on racial issues than her peers. As a nurse, she provided health care for the Carters\u2019 Black neighbors, often without asking for anything in return. Carter would carry his mother\u2019s legacy of concern for the health and well-being of the underprivileged into his political career and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Carter\u2019s mother\u2019s efforts to provide healthcare and nursing services to people in poverty are commemorated today by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nursing.emory.edu\/lillian-carter-center\/lcc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lillian Carter Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility<\/a>, part of Emory University\u2019s Woodruff School of Nursing. The Lillian Carter Center\u2019s mission is to bring a global perspective to the training of medical students and thereby improve the medical care available to those in need all over the world. The Lillian Carter Center has been <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/emorynursing\/docs\/emory-nursing-spring-2023\/s\/23605407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">praised for creating productive partnerships<\/a> with medical communities abroad and has participated in studies to <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/phn.13066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">improve medical data management and collection<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Carter grew up and set his sights beyond Georgia, he aspired to become an officer in the US Navy. In 1943, during World War II, Carter was accepted to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What were Jimmy Carter&#8217;s parents like? 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