MAY 24, 1963-- U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy on this date sought an injunction to prevent Gov. George Wallace from fulfilling his promise of preventing black students from enrolling at The ...

After an assassination attempt, Gov. George Wallace, the segregationist, got a surprise visitor: Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress. Could this happen today? By Jeremy W.

I was first elected to the Alabama Legislature in 1982. George Wallace had been elected to his last term as governor that year. Therefore, my first term as a legislator was Wallace’s final and fifth ...

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