Wallace is elected governor of Alabama in 1962. African American attorney J. L. Chestnut remembers George C. Wallace as "the most liberal judge that I had ever practiced law in front of" and as ...
“We were young and idealistic,” Ruth recalled. “And we loved George for his enthusiasms.” In the late 1940s and 1950s, Wallace eschewed extremism. He refused to join the Dixiecrat ...
Determined to "outnigger" the opposition in his 1962 bid for governor, George Wallace turned to the politics of race with a new fiery speechwriter, Asa Carter. Carter, a right-wing radio announcer ...