Good drop Blunt. I'll have to look this up at the library. Yeah my home state Alabama was some crazy shit back in the day (and to a certain extent still is). Birmingham and Montgomery being the worst back then. My parents and grand parents told me about how George Wallace was. He was a symbol of the times and really was headstrong against integration in Alabama and the South in general.Originally posted by Blunt
Great documentary about that day. Groundbreaking in its access to the principals. One of the first of its kind.
From his Governor inaugural speech:
"In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever".
Which were written by Wallace's new speechwriter, Asa Carter, a Klansman.
When you do wrong, wrong tends to come back on you. I guess that's why he was shot and paralyzed later on
I don't know why this made me laugh... Yes I do!
