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Millard Fillmore's Bathtub (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Would George Wallace, the late segregationist Governor of Alabama and one-time threat to win the presidency, have voted for Barack Obama? Ask George Wallace’s daughter, Peggy Wallace Kennedy. You might be surprised. Wallace’s politics were a southern response to what was perceived as Washington’s abandoning of the southern states. Bush’s policies, especially...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
... '60s revolutionary," said she was hardly surprised by what happened at Alabama, where then-Gov. George C. Wallace made his infamous "stand in the schoolhouse door" against racial integration in 1963.The student body and faculty members are mostly conservative, she said, and racist incidents seem to occur every year or so. Before the election, a student was disciplined for defacing...
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The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
... charges, Siegelman was the most successful Democrat on Alabama’s political stage in the era after George C. Wallace. He was convicted more than two years ago on political corruption charges after a jury deliberated nine days and was initially deadlocked. Siegelman is now set to argue his appeal in Atlanta on December 9.But even before the appeal is argued, the prosecution’s key evidence...
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A Bama Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Here's Peggy Wallace Kennedy , daughter of former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace: George Wallace and other Southern governors of his ilk stood defiantly in the 1950s and '60s in support of racial segregation, a culture of repression, violence and denial of basic human rights . Their actions and the stark images of their consequences that spread across the world...
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Cobbloviate (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
All of the commentators who have suggested with reasonably straight faces in recent days that the McCain campaign may have erred in refusing to let “Sarah Palin be Sarah Palin,” might want to take a gander at what happened forty years ago when Alabama governor and American Independent party presidential candidate George C. Wallace held a press conference to introduce General Curtis LeMay...
