Asa Earl Carter

Asa Earl Carter was a 1950s segregationist political activist, Ku Klux Klan organizer, 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 white supremacist ticket. Years later, under the pseudonym of supposedly Cherokee writer Forrest Carter, he wrote The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (1972), a Western novel that led to a 1976 film featuring Clint Eastwood that was adopted into the National Film Registry, 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.

4 September 1925

Born on the same birth day (4 September): Al-Biruni • Armands Šķēle • Awesome Kong • Christian Walz • Constantijn Huygens • George Percy (governor) • Gerald Wilson • James Bay (singer) • Jan Švankmajer • Jazz Tevaga • Jennie Lee (American actress) • Jerry Jarrett • Jonny Lomax • Kenzō Tange • Kyle Mooney • Luigi Cadorna • Raúl Albiol • Richard Speight Jr. • Virgil A. Richard • Yannick Carrasco

Born in the same month (September 1925): Andrea Camilleri • Art Pepper • Autar Singh Paintal • B. B. King • Boris Tchaikovsky • Denis Twitchett • Dorothy Loudon • Dorothy Wedderburn • Harvey Haddix • James Bernard (composer) • John List (murderer) • Marty Robbins • Mel Tormé • Norm Dussault • P. Bhanumathi • Robert Edwards (physiologist) • Roy Brown (blues musician) • Silvana Pampanini • Stanley Chapman • Virginia Capers