This article recounts former President Jimmy Carter's childhood visits to Birmingham, Alabama, highlighting his special connection to the state.
Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn visited a Habitat For Humanity community in Fairfield, Alabama , on Friday, October 8, 2010, to help complete the home of Ted and Wanda Harville. The Carters worked on the house, toured others, and spoke with reporters. Jimmy Carter, who passed away on December 29, 2022 at the age of 100, was born, raised and died in Georgia, but he held a special fondness for Alabama .
In a 2009 interview with The Birmingham News, Carter discussed his childhood trips to Birmingham, arriving by train. Carter, born in 1924, visited Birmingham every summer for at least a week during the 1930s as a pre-teen. On one of those trips, Carter recalled hearing and reading about Will Rogers' death in a plane crash. 'My parents would put us on the train, me and my sister, and put a tag on our neck, saying where we going and where we were from,' Carter said. 'I used to come to Birmingham when I was 10, 11, 12, 13,' Carter said. 'My father’s oldest sister lived there.' His father’s sister was married to Will Fleming, a publisher of Sunday School material for the Southern Baptist Convention. Fleming owned a home in the Hollywood section of Homewood, he recalled. He remembered being in Birmingham on August 15, 1935, when Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post died in a plane crash in the Alaska Territory. But those Depression-era train trips weren't his last memories of Birmingham. He returned numerous times. In 1993, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship held a major meeting at the BJCC in Birmingham. Carter, who had recently distanced himself from the Southern Baptist Convention and endorsed the CBF, was the keynote speaker. Carter returned again for a New Baptist Covenant event he helped organize at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in 2009
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