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 ...
Vivian Malone and James Hood walked through the doors of Foster Auditorium at The University of Alabama to become the first Black students to successfully enroll at the school in 1963.
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 ...
The mass meeting, organized by the Harvard Civil Rights Coo-ordinating Committee (CRCC), will compete with an address by Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama. CRCC has scheduled one prominent civil ...