Lillian Gordy Carter Nursing in honor of the work she did in India. The Atlanta Regional Office of the Peace Corps has named an award in her honor for volunteers over 50 who make the biggest contribution. When Jimmy Carter decided to run for president, his mother was one of the first people he told. He was initially regarded as a dark horse candidate for the Democratic Party nomination. Lillian Carter was well known as "Miss Lillian" and she published two books during his Presidency, "Miss Lillian and Friends" and "Away from Home: Letters to my Family", both published in 1977. The latter
Lillian Ascough Lillian Ascough Lillian Ascough (born c.1892 in New York City) was an American Suffragist. Originally from Detroit, Michigan, she served as the Connecticut Chairman of the National Woman's Party and the Vice President of the Michigan Branch NWP. At the August 1918 demonstration at Lafayette Square, Ascough was sentenced to fifteen days in jail. Then, in February 1919 she participated in the watchfire demonstrations and was again arrested and sentenced to five days in jail. She was a speaker in the Suffragist Special Tour (also known as the Prison Special due to the speaker's voicing their experiences as political prisoners)