"In one eighteen-month period," recounts Dan Carter in his George Wallace biography, "his followers joined in the stoning of Autherine Lucy on the University of Alabama campus, assaulted black ...
August 25: George Corley Wallace is born in Clio ... 1937 Eighteen-year-old Wallace enrolls at the University of Alabama Law School in Tuscaloosa. Six weeks after he leaves home, Wallace's ...
“And we loved George for his enthusiasms.” In the late 1940s and 1950s, Wallace eschewed extremism ... admitting a Black woman to the University of Alabama. Ambitious and sensing that racism ...
Autherine Lucy Foster made history on Feb. 3, 1956, becoming the first Black student to attend classes at the University of ...
George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor of Alabama. It was directed by John Frankenheimer, who won an Emmy award for it; Sinise and ...