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As my Emory University class sifted through the details of AC Hall's death,

we wanted to get a better sense of what life was like back in rural Georgia in 1962.

Well, lucky us.

Guess who, serendipitously, asked if he could come meet my class.

A former president of the United States, 94-year-old Jimmy Carter.

A president Carter is the University Distinguished Professor at Emory.

And every semester, he visits and participates in classes throughout the university.

So in his aide, Steve Hockman, called offering a visit to the Georgia Civil Rights cold cases class

that I teach, I jumped at that opportunity.

Not just because he is a former president, in fact not even because he is a former president.

I did it because I knew that in October 1962, the same month that AC Hall was shot and killed

by white police officers in Maikun, 38-year-old Jimmy Carter was making his first bid for political office.

He was running for the Georgia State Senate and a seven county district southwest of Maikun.

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