Mattie Wright, a 73-year-old Albany resident, visited Plains Thursday to honor the late president’s push for racial equality — a lesson Jimmy Carter instilled in his son, Chip. Wright attended Georgia Southwestern University with Chip in the early 1970s. He used to talk with Wright and other Black students at the university’s student center.

Wright grew up in Plains and attended Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, Georgia, with Chip Carter, Jimmy Carter’s son. Katie Tucker/The Telegraph Mattie Wright, a 73-year-old ...

President Jimmy Carter, the nation’s 39th chief executive and the first U.S. Naval Academy graduate to serve in the Oval Office, began his final journey Saturday with a procession that

PLAINS, Ga. — Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter began Saturday in Georgia ... at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus. Former Secret Service agents who ...

"I was immediately struck by how young he looked — not the drawn and pale president I had seen on TV, reporting on the hostage crisis that you could tell

Over the last two weeks, resources from across the state and nation flowed into Sumter County for the state funeral of former President Jimmy Carter. Fire departments

Rio Grande Valley-based writer and retired educator Samuel Freeman remembers President Carter as a champion of civil rights.

Former President Jimmy Carter — who died Dec. 29 and was laid to rest Thursday in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, after a state funeral in Washington, D.C. — wore a lot of hats in his 100 years of life.

Jimmy Carter made a final trip home to Plains, to be buried near the modest house he shared with his wife Rosalynn for more than six decades.

People living in Plains, Georgia are remembering the legacy of President Jimmy Carter after he was laid to rest Thursday.

“After Friday we are just going to start settling back down and getting back to some type of normal,” said Lynton Earl Godwin, who is known around town as “Boze” and served as the mayor of Plains for 38 years until he retired last January. “The town has been anticipating this, and President Carter was anticipating it also.”

WALB will bring you up-to-date coverage of Carter’s state funeral and it’s a six-day series of events. Over the course of the six days, Georgians along with the nation will ha