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| Source:Freedom Forum- Governor George C. Wallace (Democrat, Alabama) attempt to block school integration in Alabama, in 1963. |
"On June 11, 1963, Gov. George Wallace tried to block the integration of the University of Alabama by standing in front of the schoolhouse door."
From Freedom Forum
I don't believe that George C. Wallace (long time former Governor of Alabama) was a racist. And certainly not a Conservative across the board and perhaps not even as it related to civil rights. As we saw Conservative Republicans vote for civil right in Congress in the 1960s. But that George Wallace was a career politician, an addicted politician as well as a smart political strategist.
I don't believe that George C. Wallace (long time former Governor of Alabama) was a racist. And certainly not a Conservative across the board and perhaps not even as it related to civil rights. As we saw Conservative Republicans vote for civil right in Congress in the 1960s. But that George Wallace was a career politician, an addicted politician as well as a smart political strategist.
Governor Wallace knew he wanted to be involved in Alabama state politics for a very long time and had goals as it related to national politics as well. And was a smart enough politician to know that the most dominant issue in Alabama politics at least in the 1960s and 70s was going to be civil rights and race relations and new being opposed to these things (at least officially) was his easiest path to power and keeping power and exploited this issue as well as it could be done for people who opposed these things.
George Wallace was a smart enough lawyer to know that he was going to lose these battles in court and the people he was trying to deny civil and constitutional rights to people who were eventually going to be rewarded with those things.
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