Asa carter biography

Asa Earl Carter (September 4, – June 7, ) was a s segregationist political activist, Ku Klux Klan organizer, and later Western novelist..

Asa Earl Carter was a s segregationist political activist, Ku Klux Klan organizer, and later Western novelist.

Asa Carter () is remembered as a promoter of white supremacist views, especially in his role as a speech writer for Alabama governor George C. Wallace.

Asa Earl Carter (September 4, – June 7, ) was a s segregationist political activist, Ku Klux Klan organizer, and later Western novelist.

Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace.

Unmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South's most notorious white supremacists (and.

Asa Earl Carter

American activist, speechwriter and novelist (1925–1979)

Asa Earl Carter

Born	(1925-09-04)September 4, 1925 Anniston, Alabama, U.S.
Died	June 7, 1979(1979-06-07) (aged 53) Abilene, Texas, U.S.
Other names	Forrest Carter
Occupation	Writer

Asa Earl Carter (September 4, 1925 – June 7, 1979) was a 1950s segregationist political activist, Ku Klux Klan organizer, and later Western novelist.

He co-wrote George Wallace's well-known pro-segregation line of 1963, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever", and ran in the Democratic primary for governor of Alabama on a white supremacist ticket. Years later, under the pseudonym of supposedly Cherokee writer Forrest Carter, he wrote The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (1972), a Western novel that was adapted into a 1976 film featuring Clint Eastwood that added to the National Film Registry, and The Education of Little Tree (1976), a best-selling, award-winning boo