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- Today Americans remember Wallace as a villain of the civil rights era — the governor who stood in a doorway at the University of Alabama in 1963 to block the arrival of Black students and coined the battle cry of White Southern backlash: “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever.”
May 19, 2022 · It was the spring of 1972, and George Corley Wallace — the infamously segregationist governor of Alabama, now an upstart contender for the Democratic presidential nomination — had never been...
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Dec 1, 2015 · Alabama Gov. George Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer at a campaign rally in Laurel, Md., in May 1972. He kept a diary of the 10 weeks he spent stalking, first, President Richard Nixon, then...
May 12, 2022 · On May 15, 1972, the man Martin Luther King Jr. once called the “most dangerous racist in America” stepped up to the podium at a suburban Washington, D.C. shopping center. The governor of ...
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George C. Wallace, 79, the four-time governor of Alabama and four-time candidate for president of the United States who became known as the embodiment of resistance to the civil...
2 days ago · George Wallace (born August 25, 1919, Clio, Alabama, U.S.—died September 13, 1998, Montgomery, Alabama) was an American Democratic politician who was a four-time governor of Alabama (1963–67, 1971–79, and 1983–87) and who led the South’s fight against federally ordered racial integration in the 1960s. A farmer’s son, Wallace worked ...
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3 days ago · Bremer was a 21-year-old former janitor and busboy when he shot Alabama Gov. George Wallace five times during a presidential campaign stop in 1972 in Maryland. Now 57, Bremer is preparing for life ...
Apr 2, 2014 · (1919-1998) Who Was George C. Wallace? After law school and military service, George C. Wallace embarked on a career as a judge and local politician. He served four terms as Alabama...
