Asa Earl Carter

Asa Earl Carter ( September 4, 1925 in Anniston, Alabama, † June 7, 1979 in Abilene, Texas) was an American speech writer, under the pseudonym Forrest Carter wrote books later. The White Carter pretended in his published books under this pseudonym to be of Indian descent.

Life

Asa Carter was in the 1960 speech writer for George Wallace, the governor of Alabama, and its slogan, " Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever " is probably from Carters spring.

Carter was co-editor of the racist magazine, The Southerner and a member of the Ku Klux Klan. In 1970 he failed in an attempt to become governor of Alabama with a racist election program.

He then moved to Texas, went to live in honor of the Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan founder member Nathan Bedford Forrest under the pseudonym Bedford Forrest Carter and began a career as a writer. His former identity became known only after his death.

He himself claimed as Forrest Carter to be an orphan Indian descent. The book The Star of the Cherokee ( The Education of Little Tree ) describes " the story of a little Indian boy after the death of his parents by his grandparents not only reading, writing and arithmetic learning, but also the Indian way of life, American Indian history and dealing with of nature. " He gave the work out as autobiography, his real career was not known until the late 80s.

Works

• The Education of Little Tree, 1977, German star of the Cherokee
• Gone to Texas
• The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales
• Watch for Me on the Mountain, 1979, German Wait for me at the foot of the mountain