Today is the national day of mourning for former President Carter. Driving the news: The U.S. Postal Service, financial markets including the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, and federal buildings will be closed today for Carter's funeral service.

Former President Jimmy Carter, who was a progressive evangelical, reflects the existence of progressive tradition in African American Christianity.

DALLAS ( SMU) – Two days before the 1976 Texas presidential primary, former president Jimmy Carter spoke at SMU’s McFarlin Auditorium to a crowd of 2,400, his third campaign event of the day. Carter entered to the song “This Is My Country” where, according to the Dallas Morning News, “the crowd almost came out of the double balconies.”

No one could accuse the late former President Jimmy Carter of hoarding fortunes in ... Texas and a four-bedroom home in Dallas, valued at $2.5 million, according to public property records.

Former President Jimmy Carter will be buried in the small town where he lived, married, and died: Plains, Georgia. Carter spent more than 80 of his 100 years in and around the town, which still has fewer than 700 people,

Federal offices will be closed and postal service suspended. Flags will be flown at half-mast for thirty days, a fitting tribute to a man who was too often underappreciated during his presidency, garnering more accolades for his post-presidential activism than for his presidency itself.

Though a National Day of Mourning isn’t recognized as an official federal holiday, some organizations and businesses will be affected by the observance.

The late president is lying in state through Thursday morning, giving the public a chance to pay respect in person.

Jimmy Carter professing his “born again” Christianity paved the way for Jerry Falwell and Ronald Reagan's style of religious politics.

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