60 years ago this summer, Alabama Gov. George Wallace stood before the doors of the University of Alabama to prevent two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from entering. Bettmann ...

By 1972, Wallace’s image was fixed in most Americans’ minds as the face of the white South’s violent response to the Civil Rights Movement. Wallace had skillfully deployed divisive, racially ...

He overrode Gov. George Wallace, who was an outspoken segregationist. ... In the player below: Witness moments of history and the Civil Rights Movement in the archival video below.

Southerners kept up their hearing-room attacks on the Administration's civil rights proposals ... appeared Alabama’s Governor George Wallace, ... movement is part of a Communist ...

America was polarized during the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Veterans from the movement say the racial backlash they feel today is reminiscent of the recoil they faced in 1968.

The 1960s are remembered for horrific political violence, in the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert and civil rights leaders such as King, Medgar Evers and Malcolm X.