President Jimmy Carter on How His Upbringing Was Greatly Shaped by Black Culture

Excerpt: A son of the South, President Carter describes how despite growing up around racial inequality, his life was shaped, "perhaps as much as any other white American who ever lived, by black culture."
On Tuesday, April 8, 2014, President Jimmy Carter spoke in-conversation with Mark K. Updegrove. The program was one of the keynote events during the LBJ Presidential Library's Civil Rights Summit, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.
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