August 25: George Corley Wallace is born in Clio ... Despite his opposition to President Truman's proposed Civil Rights Program, Wallace refused to join the other Southern delegates, including ...
take his body and lay it on the steps of the capital," said Marion civil rights organizer Albert Turner. The SCLC planned a march to Montgomery for Sunday, March 7, 1965. George Wallace swore to ...
Thirty years later, George Wallace would sit next to the podium at a ceremony commemorating the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march, holding the hand of the president of the Southern Christian ...
John Kennedy was elected president in 1960 partly because of his promise to secure equal rights for black Americans ... at the University of Alabama. George Wallace, an ambitious Alabama ...
Opinion: “Today, conservative forces fight to bring the country back to what they see as the ‘Golden Age’ of America, which ...
George Wallace's political career included ... [and to] carry out the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the greatest civil rights measure in the history of the American people." ...
Long-standing federal guidelines prevented federal contractors from operating segregated facilities, like restaurants or waiting rooms.
To illustrate the fraud -- it is not a Civil Rights Bill. It is a Federal Penal ... They assert more power than claimed by King George III, more power than Hitler, Mussolini, or Khrushchev ever ...
take his body and lay it on the steps of the capital," said Marion civil rights organizer Albert Turner. The SCLC planned a march to Montgomery for Sunday, March 7, 1965. George Wallace swore to ...