After the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964 and 1968, many white Southerners were outraged. They believed that the federal government and the Republican Party had abandoned their values by ...
Sixty-three years ago this week, the newly inaugurated Gov. George C. Wallace took his oath of office then declared “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever!” Wallace lived long ...
And all this time, we thought George Wallace was being defiant at the schoolhouse door. Perhaps he was simply engaging in prophesy. As another Southerner, William Faulkner, famously said, "The past is ...
Integration and inclusion: If they are not identical twins, they are siblings. In the post-slavery period, former slave owners fought to prevent racial integration. Today, the descendants of slave ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – For 50 years Peggy Wallace Kennedy has lived in the shadow cast by her father, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, when he stood in a doorway and tried to stop two black students ...
Vivek Ramaswamy on Tuesday likened California Gov. Gavin Newsom to the late Alabama Gov. George Wallace, who declared, “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” The former GOP ...