Alabamans last week picked for their next Governor a man whose segregationist ideas would make Orval Faubus seem like an admirer of the N.A.A.C.P. Winner of a Democratic primary runoff: former Circuit Judge George C. Wallace, 42, of Barbour County.
Wallace, a onetime state Golden Gloves featherweight champion ("The Barbour Bantam"), campaigned on a segregationist platform that seemed extreme even by Alabama standards. The federal judiciary, he claimed, is "lousy and irresponsible." U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr., who once ordered voting records turned over to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, was an "integrating, scalawagging, carpetbagging liar." Promising that he would...
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