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Asa Earl Carter (September 4, 1925 – June 7, 1979) was a Ku Klux Klan leader, segregationist speech writer, and later western novelist. He co-wrote George Wallace's well-known pro-segregation line, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever", and ran for governor of Alabama on a segregationist ticket. In addition, under the alias of supposedly Cherokee writer Forrest Carter, he wrote ''The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales'' (1972), a 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. In 1976, following the success of his Western novel ''The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales'' (1972) and its 1976 film adaptation, ''The New York Times'' revealed Forrest Carter was actually southerner Asa Earl Carter. His background became national news again in 1991 after his purported memoir, ''The Education of Little Tree'' (1976), was re-issued in paperback, topped the ''Times'' paperback best-seller lists (both non-fiction and fiction), and won the American Booksellers Book of the Year (ABBY) award. Prior to his literary career as "Forrest", Carter was politically active for years in Alabama as an opponent of the civil rights movement: he worked as a speechwriter for segregationist Governor George Wallace of Alabama, founded the North Alabama Citizens Council (NACC) – an independent offshoot of the White Citizens' Council movement – and an independent Ku Klux Klan group, and started a pro-segregation monthly, titled ''The Southerner''. ==Early life== Asa Carter was born in Oxford, Alabama in 1925, the second eldest of four children. Despite later claims (as author "Forrest" Carter) that he was orphaned, he was raised by his parents Ralph and Hermione Carter in nearby Oxford, Alabama. Both parents lived into Carter's adulthood. Carter served in the United States Navy during World War II and for a year studied journalism at the University of Colorado on the G.I. Bill. After the war, he married India Thelma Walker.〔 The couple settled in Birmingham, Alabama and had four children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Asa Earl Carter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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