carter family

Story of Matthew and Mae Bertha Carter, whose determination to build a better life led them to take advantage of new civil rights laws in 1965 and send their children to an all-white school in Sunflower County, Mississippi and whose family suffered threats, deprivation and torture as a result.

President Jimmy Carter remembers his childhood on a farm in Depression-era Georgia; comments on rural life, family, and race relations.

Relates the true story of the Matthew and Mae Carter family, in simple text with illustrations, and how they helped to integrate an all-white school in Drew, Mississippi, in 1965, suffering years of name-calling, humiliation, and death threats.