Lurleen and the children -- Peggy Sue was born in 1950 and George, Jr. followed 18 months later -- took a backseat to Wallace’s true love, politics. Fed up with Wallace’s neglectful ...
August 25: George Corley Wallace is born in Clio ... August 28: Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his "I have a dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial to the 250,000 people gathered for the ...
Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in April ... began to wonder if perhaps the country needed a "law and order" leader like George Wallace. In contrast to Republican Richard Nixon ...
On March 25, 1965, triumphant civil rights demonstrators led by Martin Luther King, Jr. marched into Montgomery ... You won't find George Wallace anywhere in sight. . . . The road from Selma ...