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"Miss Lillian", as she was often known, allowed black people to enter her home through the front door, rather than through the back door as was the social norm, and would often have them in her living room for casual conversation just as she would a white neighbor.
She used her nursing skills to help her husband’s employees and tended both black and white neighbors who needed medical care. She didn’t see “color” but rather saw humanity, and refused to allow race to be a determining factor in how she treated people. Lillian’s husband died in 1953.
Feb 26, 2023 · Lillian became a Brooklyn Dodgers fan in 1947 when the team fielded the first Black player in the Major Leagues, Jackie Robinson of Cairo, Ga., and stayed a lifelong fan after the Dodgers moved...
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Mar 8, 2011 · Lillian Gordy Carter, who died in 1983, was the mother of President Jimmy Carter. Years before she captured a nation's imagination with her sassy, ove ... And she took care of black people just as ...
Lillian's grandfather James Thomas Gordy was a wagon master during the Civil War and later county tax collector, and he married Harriet Emily Helms, whose parents came from North Carolina.Lillian ...
Jan 11, 2011 · By John Brieske. Jan 11, 2011. Although she’s best known as the mother of President Jimmy Carter, Lillian Gordy Carter lived a remarkable life of her own. During an era when women were expected ...
Oct 31, 1983 · During the years of segregation, Mrs. Carter astonished her white neighbors by such acts as regularly acting as a nurse to the family's black farmhands and occasionally receiving black...
