“As your governor, I shall resist any illegal federal court order, even to the point of standing at the schoolhouse door in person, if necessary.”

— George Wallace

Gubernatorial campaign promise (1962), quoted in George Wallace: Conservative Populist
1960s

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45th Governor of Alabama 1919–1998

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