Vote George Wallace For Alabama Governor – A Pro Segregation Comic Book From 1960

ALABAMA NEEDS “THE LITTLE JUDGE” – GEORGE C. WALLACE FOR THE BIG JOB – 1960/1961

– Pro-Segregation Comic Book commissioned directly by George Wallace during his campaign for Governor of Alabama

 

 

In 1960 and 61, Geroge Wallce (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) was vying to be Governor of Alabma. This booklet is credited as one of the principle reasons Wallace won that gubernatorial election, later allowing him to become one of the South’s loudest voices against integration and civil rights.

 

 

Wallce was the 45th and longest-serving governor of Alabama from 1963 to 1967, 1971 to 1979, and 1983 to 1987, and the longest-serving governor from the Democratic Party. He wanted more but his rise was stymied by three unsuccessful attempts to win the presidential nomination as a Democrat, and once with the American Independent Party, in which he carried five states in the 1968 presidential election.

Wallace opposed desegregation and supported the policies of “Jim Crow”, declaring in his 1963 inaugural address that he stood for “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever”.

 

 

Wallace gained national notoriety by standing at the entrance to the University of Alabama to denounce the enrollment of two African American students, Vivian Malone and James Hood. Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King said of Wallace in a 1965 interview: “I am not sure that he believes all the poison that he preaches, but he is artful enough to convince others that he does.”

 

 

Wallace later moderated his views on race and renounced his past support for segregation. In the 1980s, the man who had once vowed “segregation forever” asked forgiveness of many people with whom he had clashed. Wallace was elected in 1982 to his last term as governor with strong support from African-American voters.

 

 

 

 

Via: Ethan Persoff