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Jimmy Carter: When I was a child in Georgia, there was another threat as well which was even more all-encompassing and which afflicted…

On the recordJuly 10, 1977
When I was a child in Georgia, there was another threat as well which was even more all-encompassing and which afflicted us as did a physical disease, and that was racial discrimination.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Presidential Medal of Freedom Remarks on Presenting the Medal to Dr. Jonas E. Salk and to Martin Luther King, Jr.

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