By Clarence White, 6th Episcopal District
President Jimmy Carter wrote in his books about growing up in Archery, Georgia, a now vanished mostly black town near Plains, where St Mark AME Church is located. On the first Saturday in May 2008, he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, attended the fifth Annual May Day Festival, a day of fellowship, games, exhibits, and history. The President reminisced about growing up in the community and about his parents’ relationship with AMEC Bishop William Decker Johnson and his Johnson Home Industrial College at Archery Archery, Georgia Historical Marker. He recalled episodes of his longtime friendship with his boyhood friend and playmate, Presiding Elder J.L. Raven of Americus, who is two years younger than Carter, who grew up in St Mark Church, and who was in the audience with his late wife, Velma.
Submitted by: Clarence White, white792@aol.com
Amateur historian Clarence White was born in 1946 in Schley County, Georgia. He has written extensively on African American history of the Georgia Black Belt.
Attachments: Three Photographs of President Jimmy Carter Seated
