![]() His father carried on the more traditional role of the Southern landowner, eventually increasing his holdings to 4,000 acres, worked by mostly black tenant farmers. Carter’s mother, Lillian, flouted the custom by volunteering her services as midwife and health practitioner to her neighbors. Most of their neighbors - and young Jimmy’s playmates in Archery - were African American, but the rigid code of segregation required the separation of the races in school, in church and other public places. Although the Carter family home lacked both electricity and running water, the Carters were one of the more prosperous families in the community. Jimmy Carter has described the world of his childhood movingly in his 2001 book, An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood. ![]() When Jimmy Carter was four years old, the family moved to a farm in the nearby community of Archery. His mother, Lillian, was a registered nurse. His father, James Earl Carter, Sr., known as Earl, was a farmer and businessman. ![]() was born in the small farming town of Plains, Georgia. (Credit: Jimmy Carter Presidential Library) The future president, Jimmy, is on the right, with his sister Ruth and brother Billy. ![]() OctoJames Earl Carter, Sr., with his three children. ![]()
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