Asa Earl Carter co-wrote the infamous pro-segregation line given by what 45th Governor of Alabama?
Asa Earl Carter Asa Earl Carter (September 4, 1925 – June 7, 1979) was a 1950s Ku Klux Klan leader, segregationist speech writer, 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 segregationist ticket. Years later, under the alias of supposedly Cherokee writer Forrest Carter, he wrote "" (1972), a Western novel that led to a 1976 National Film Registry film, and "The Education of Little Tree" (1976), a best-selling, award-winning book which was marketed as a memoir but which turned out to be fiction.
Jim Folsom James Elisha Folsom Sr. (October 9, 1908 – November 21, 1987), commonly known as Jim Folsom or Big Jim Folsom, was the 42nd governor of the U.S. state of Alabama, having served from 1947 to 1951, and again from 1955 to 1959.