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 ...
"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 ...
“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 ...
From the moment car wash owner Harry Slate (George Wallace) rolls into the opening ... down the sunny treelined streets of his close-knit Alabama community, the audience knows they can relax.
And that’s by design.Stand-up comedian George Wallace, who plays car wash owner Harry Slate, first imagined this affable ...
On Feb. 3, 1956, Autherine Lucy made history by attending her first class at the University of Alabama ... mere feet from ...
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 ...
Laverne Cox and George Wallace star in the new Prime Video comedy ... curious and nonjudgmental,” she reminds herself on the bus on the way to Alabama), is allowed to merely wrestle with the ...