GEORGE WALLACE INAUGURATED AS GOVERNOR OF ALABAMA, PROMISES 'SEGREGATION FOREVER'
Montgomery, Alabama (JFK+50) On January 14, 1963, George Corley Wallace, Jr.* was inaugurated as the Governor of the state of Alabama having won the November 1962 election in a landslide.
According to history.com, the Governor's inaugural address was written by Asa Carter**, a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
Governor Wallace said...
"Today I have stood where once Jefferson Davis stood. It is very appropriate then that from this Cradle of the Confederacy...we sound the drum for freedom.
I draw the line in the dust...and I say...segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!"
*George Corley Wallace, Jr. (1919-1998) was born in Clio, Alabama & attended the University of Alabama School of Law. He served in the US Army Air Force during WWII.
GCW was governor of Alabama 1963-1967, 1971-1979, 1983-1987. In 1968, he ran a third party campaign for POTUS winning 5 southern states. He was shot during the 1972 presidential primaries leaving him permanently paralyzed below the waist.
**Asa Earl Carter (1925-1979) was born in Anniston, Alabama & attended the University of Colorado. AEC was a segregationist activist in the 1950s & became a Western fiction novelist. He served in the US Navy during WWII.
SOURCES
"George Wallace Inaugurated as Alabama governor," July 21, 2010, History.com, www.history.com/
"Inaugural Address of Governor George Wallace," Alabama Department of Archives and History, www.digital.archives.alabama.gov/
