Asa Earl Carter (September 4, 1925 – June 7, 1979) was a
Ku Klux Klan leader,
segregationist speech writer, and later
western novelist. He co-wrote
George Wallace's well-known pro-
segregation line, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever", and ran for governor of
Alabama on a segregationist ticket. In addition, under the
alias of supposedly
Cherokee writer
Forrest Carter, he wrote
The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (1972), a Western novel that led to a 1976
National Film Registry film, 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.