# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/asa-earl-carter
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:58:29.319Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/asa-earl-carter"
name: "Asa Earl Carter"
slug: "asa-earl-carter"
description: "Asa Earl Carter was an American segregationist and Ku Klux Klan organizer who was prominent in the 1950s for his activism and later as a Western fiction novelist. He was particularly known for his work as a co-writer of George Wallace's well-known pro-segregation line of 1963, \"Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.\" He ran in the Democratic primary for governor of Alabama as a white supremacist. Later, under the pseudonym of supposedly Cherokee writer Forrest Carter, he wrote The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (1972), a Western novel that was adapted into a 1976 film featuring Clint Eastwood that was added to 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."
tagline: "American speech writer and novelist (1925–1979)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Forrest_Carter_on_the_back_of_Gone_to_Texas.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1925-09-04"
deathDate: "1979-06-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.55
  momentum:             0.7363374880153404
  historical:           11.53489733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0141620/"
    handle:    "nm0141620"
sources:
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    title: "艾薩·卡特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Forrest Carter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Carter"
    title: "Forrest Carter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "آسا إيرل كارتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Earl_Carter"
    title: "Asa Earl Carter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Earl_Carter"
    title: "Asa Earl Carter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Earl_Carter"
    title: "Asa Earl Carter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC"
    title: "アサ・アール・カーター"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%97%90%EC%9D%B4%EC%82%AC_%EC%96%BC_%EC%B9%B4%ED%84%B0"
    title: "에이사 얼 카터"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Carter"
    title: "Forrest Carter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Earl_Carter"
    title: "Asa Earl Carter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Earl_Carter"
    title: "Asa Earl Carter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Earl_Carter"
    title: "Asa Earl Carter"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1192885"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump