In 1975 Johnson issued a court order requiring ... The troops that beat and tear-gassed the demonstrators were under orders from Governor George Wallace to halt the march. Thirty years later ...

former Alabama governor and U.S. presidential candidate George Wallace. By 1972, Wallace’s image was fixed in most Americans’ minds as the face of the white South’s violent response to the ...

Wallace is elected governor of Alabama in 1962. African American attorney J. L. Chestnut remembers George C. Wallace as "the most liberal judge that I had ever practiced law in front of" and as a ...