Photos: The Carter Center and Beyond (1982 – 2023)

After leaving the White House, Rosalynn Carter co-founded Every Child By Two (known today as Vaccinate Your Family) to raise awareness nationwide of the need for childhood immunizations by age two. This photo was taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1993. (Credit: The Carter Center)

Former First Ladies Rosalynn Carter and Betty Ford joined bipartisan forces to testify in the U.S. Senate and speak at the National Press Club on March 7, 1994, calling for comprehensive mental health and substance use insurance benefits. (Credit: The Carter Center)

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter traveled to North Korea in June 1994 for talks with then-President Kim Il-Sung resulting in an eight-year freeze of that nation’s nuclear weapons program. (Credit: The Carter Center)

Former President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bill Clinton at a ceremony at The Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, August 9, 1999. (Credit: The Carter Center)

Rosalynn Carter observes voting at an Indonesian polling station in June 1999 during the nation’s first genuinely democratic legislative elections, which were monitored by The Carter Center. (Credit: The Carter Center)

Rosalynn Carter visits Abriendo Puertas, an Annie E. Casey Mental Health Initiative for Urban Children, Miami, Florida, 1999. (Credit: The Carter Center)

In 2001, Rosalynn Carter became only the third first lady ever inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame, joining Abigail Adams and Eleanor Roosevelt. “Her life-long work on behalf of women, children, and the mentally ill is a living testament to her vision and character,” said Marilyn Bero, National Women’s Hall of Fame president. (Credit: National Women’s Hall of Fame)

Rosalynn Carter receives flowers from a Cuban woman while touring Old Havana in May 2002 during a trip with former President Jimmy Carter to urge the United States and Cuban governments to mend relations.(Credit: The Carter Center)

President and Mrs. Carter are surrounded by their children and grandchildren on a family vacation in Fort Myers, Florida, in December 2004. (Credit: Jimmy Carter Library)

Election observers Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter prepare for poll closing procedures during elections in Monrovia, Liberia, on October 11, 2005. (Credit: The Carter Center)

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter wear traditional Ghanaian attire during a visit to Northern Ghana to view Carter Center health campaigns to eradicate Guinea worm disease and eliminate trachoma, on February 8, 2007. (Credit: The Carter Center)

A young Nigerian girl presents Mrs. Carter with flowers of welcome during the Feb. 15, 2007, tour of health work in the community of Nasarawa. (Credit: The Carter Center)

On July 10, 2007, Rosalynn Carter testified before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee in favor of the Wellstone Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, calling for mental illnesses to be covered by insurance on par with physical illnesses. (Credit: The Carter Center)

For more than three decades, President and Mrs. Carter led annual week-long Carter Work Projects for Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that helps to build and renovate homes for those in need. Rosalynn Carter is pictured here carrying a truss in Pascagoula, Miss., in 2008. (Credit: Habitat for Humanity)

The Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers at Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, Georgia, was established in the former first lady’s honor to provide support and resources for the many unsung heroines and heroes who are family and professional caregivers. (Credit: Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers)

A statue of former First Lady Rosalynn Carter sits outside two buildings dedicated in her honor at Georgia Southwestern State University, her alma mater and home of the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers. (Credit: Georgia Southwestern State University)

Portrait of Rosalynn Carter at The Carter Center, 1993. (Credit: The Carter Center)