Jimmy Carter's life intersected with slavery's legacy. His record...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : FILE - Dr. Martin Luther King Sr., Rosalynn Carter, President Jimmy Carter, Coretta Scott King, Christine Parris King, sister of the late Dr. King, and U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young sing during a reception honoring friends of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Social Change in Washington, on Oct. 3, 1978.
59% : King Sr. delivered the benediction.
55% : He opened state government contracting to Black-owned businesses, appointed Black Georgians to key posts and formed a friendship with King's parents and his widow, Coretta Scott King.
40% : His approach revealed a dualism in Carter that, at least earlier in life, pitted his ambitions and political pragmatism against the idealism of his religious and social values.
28% : Carter´s father, a segregationist, employed about two dozen Black families as tenant farmers, and Carter recalled that as a child he never thought about social and legal distinctions on the farm.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.