George Wallace
Alabama's defiant governor
George Wallace was a four-term governor of Alabama, notorious for his defiant stance against racial integration.
In his 1963 inaugural address he declared "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever," and that year stood in a schoolhouse door to block Black students from enrolling at the University of Alabama.
Wallace ran for president four times, appealing to white working-class resentment.
In 1972 an assassination attempt left him paralyzed.
He later renounced his segregationist views and sought reconciliation with Black leaders.
Deep South state
- MontgomeryAlabama's seat of government
- gubernatorialOf a governor
- statehouseLegislature's headquarters
- executiveSenior organizational leader
inauguration · administration · legislature · capitol · Democratic Party · political machine · term limits · state government
Loss of muscle function
- wheelchairSeated conveyance for mobility-impaired
- assassination attemptEffort to kill a prominent figure
- Secret ServiceFederal protective law enforcement
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
Uninvolved outside entity
- populismPolitics favoring ordinary citizens
- campaign trailRoute of electoral speechmaking
- primaryChief in importance
- national politicsGovernance at country level
political rallies · stump speech · crossover appeal · working class · anti-establishment
Statement acknowledging wrongdoing
- recantationFormal withdrawal of statement
- racial reconciliationProcess of healing ethnic divisions
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- later yearsPeriod near life's end
Racial separation laws
- white supremacyDoctrine of racial superiority
- racial discriminationPrejudice based on ethnicity
- separate but equalRacial segregation's constitutional fiction
- states' rightsProvincial governmental autonomy
Alabama
Deep South state
- MontgomeryAlabama's seat of government
- gubernatorialOf a governor
- statehouseLegislature's headquarters
executive · inauguration · administration · legislature · capitol · Democratic Party · political machine · term limits · state government · political dynasty
paralysis
Loss of muscle function
- wheelchairSeated conveyance for mobility-impaired
- assassination attemptEffort to kill a prominent figure
- Secret ServiceFederal protective law enforcement
third party
Uninvolved outside entity
- populismPolitics favoring ordinary citizens
- campaign trailRoute of electoral speechmaking
- primaryChief in importance
national politics · political rallies · stump speech · crossover appeal · working class · anti-establishment
apology
Statement acknowledging wrongdoing
- recantationFormal withdrawal of statement
- racial reconciliationProcess of healing ethnic divisions
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
Jim Crow
Racial separation laws
- white supremacyDoctrine of racial superiority
- racial discriminationPrejudice based on ethnicity
- separate but equalRacial segregation's constitutional fiction
states' rights · racial politics · federal intervention · National Guard
- AlabamaBirmingham, Alabama, Montgomery, Huntsville, Mobile
- Alabama HistoryMontgomery, Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery bus boycott, Martin Luther King Jr.
- DemagoguesAdolf Hitler, Hitler, Joseph McCarthy, McCarthy, Benito Mussolini
- Southern IconsElvis Presley, William Faulkner, Martin Luther King Jr., Tennessee Williams, Rosa Parks
- 1968Tet Offensive, MLK assassination, RFK assassination, Prague Spring, Apollo 8
- 1972 ElectionNixon, McGovern, Watergate, landslide, reelection
George WallaceMartin Luther King Jr.
John Lewis · integrationist · Thurgood Marshall · Rosa Parks · Medgar Evers
George WallaceMartin Luther King Jr.
Mahatma Gandhi · John Lewis · reconciler · unifier · bridge-builder
George WallaceMartin Luther King Jr.
John Lewis · Rosa Parks · Abraham Lincoln · Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass
Georgia, George, Georgian, Wallace, Georgie, Georgina, Georgian architecture