The Law: Another Kind of Defiance

Last June, after all sorts of boast ful promises to "stand in the school-house door" to prevent integration at the University of Alabama, Governor George Wallace conducted a charade of defiance, then backed away in the face of superior federal power. But last week Wallace was back at the business of defiance, and this time he was confident that he had a much less sticky wicket to stand on — after all, he could now seem to side with God Himself.

Wallace called upon the state school board to ignore the United States Supreme Court decision that declared un constitutional...

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