by Kevin Burton Classes let out on the day of Jimmy Carter’s inauguration as the 39th President of the United States. So I watched part of it in the library at the Ohio State School for the Blind in Columbus. Carter and his wife Rosalynn famously got out of their limousine and walked …
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Rosalynn Carter’s Controversial Nanny
by Kathy Ehrich Dowd Time Magazine Mary Prince, a Black woman who had been convicted of murder, was already a controversial figure at Jimmy Carter’s 1977 Presidential Inauguration. Although she was incarcerated, Prince was given permission to travel to Washington, D.C. for the event and arrived in a dress made of material given …
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