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Asa Earl Carter (September 4, 1925 – June 7, 1979) was a 1950s segregationist political activist, Ku Klux Klan organizer, and later Western novelist.
Jan 27, 2021 · In the 1950s and '60s, Asa Earl Carter was a Klansman and a violent white supremacist. But years later, he re-emerged as a "Native American" author. "He just pulled up out of the Choccolocco Valley, tanned himself up, grew a mustache, lost about 20 pounds, and became Forrest Carter."
Jul 5, 2024 · Asa Carter was a white supremacist speech writer for Alabama governor George C. Wallace and a novelist under the pseudonym Bedford Forrest Carter. He wrote The Education of Little Tree, a hoax memoir of a Cherokee boy, and The Outlaw Josey Wales, a Western adventure series.
Three decades earlier, in Alabama, Asa Earl Carter was a Ku Klux Klan organizer, a rabid segregationist and a talk show host who expounded on the dangers of integration. In 1963, he drafted...
Jun 1, 1995 · Asa Earl Carter was a former politician and speech-writer who became a pseudonymous author of books such as The Education of Little Tree and The Outlaw Josey Wales. He was a controversial figure who advocated segregation and Cherokee heritage in his writings.
Oct 4, 1991 · Asa Carter's celebration of sadomasochistic violence and thinly veiled vigilantism in his westerns of the 1960's and 70's had become a powerful theme of American popular...
Asa Earl Carter (September 4, 1925 – June 7, 1979) was a 1950s segregationist political activist, Ku Klux Klan organizer, and later Western novelist.
