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A Black Journalist’s Journey,” Pulitzer-winning journalist Harold Jackson reflects on lessons from 1960s Alabama.
"In one eighteen-month period," recounts Dan Carter in his George Wallace biography, "his followers joined in the stoning of Autherine Lucy on the University of Alabama campus, assaulted black ...
August 25: George Corley Wallace is born in Clio ... 1937 Eighteen-year-old Wallace enrolls at the University of Alabama Law School in Tuscaloosa. Six weeks after he leaves home, Wallace's ...
George McMillan, a former politician who rose to the highest ranks of state politics and then later became the “driving force” in helping redefine downtown Birmingham by founding a popular music ...
W hen Governor George Wallace stood in the door at University of Alabama’s Foster Auditorium in 1963 in a symbolic attempt to block of black students from entering following the US Supreme Court ...
In a column on Monday, I had a note on George C. Wallace — a note that went like ... I graduated from Auburn University in 1985, and whose signature is on my diploma? I’m sure that most ...
Chestnut remembers George C. Wallace as "the most liberal judge ... segregation forever." 1963 (at the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa, during his stand to bar integration) "The unwelcomed ...
Solemnly pledging not to use “state facilities of any sort” to keep himself in power, Alabama’s Governor George Wallace last week turned the state house of representatives into a convention ...