Plowing the earth barefoot, playing with barrel hoops, operating the register at his Daddy's store... Jimmy Carter remembered his rural Georgia childhood in his memoir, An Hour Before Daylight (Simon & Schuster, 2001).

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Carter began working on the family farm as a young boy and took over the business after his father's death.
African-American sharecroppers worked and lived on the Carter family farm. Find out about the tenant farming arrangements they made.
What did young Jimmy do for fun?