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    Rosalynn Carter made a wrongfully convicted felon a White House nanny and helped win her pardon

    by Bill Barrow Nov 21, 2023 4 minutes
    Source: AP1978

    Rosalynn Carter was never a lawyer. But the former first lady used her powerful posts to address injustices imposed as part of the racist Jim Crow system that prevailed in Georgia courts as her husband climbed the political ladder.

    The most personal of those cases for Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter involved Mary Prince Fitzpatrick, who met the Carters in Georgia's Governor's Mansion and went to Washington as White House nanny to their daughter Amy, with a felony murder conviction still on her record and the president of the United States as her parole officer.

    The Carters were certain that Mary Fitzpatrick, who reverted to her maiden name,

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