2020-07 2 sessions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/24/2020
Campaign poster "VOTE WALLACE For PRESIDENT" white lettering over navy blue background, 24"x12-1/2", some border loss, else very good condition. George Corley Wallace Jr. (1919-1998) was an American politician who served as the 45th Governor of Alabama for four terms. He is best remembered for his staunch segregationist and populist views. During his tenure, he promoted "low-grade industrial development, low taxes, and trade schools". He sought the United States presidency as a Democrat three times, and once as an American Independent Party candidate, unsuccessfully each time. Wallace notoriously opposed desegregation and supported the policies of "Jim Crow" during the Civil Rights Movement, declaring in his 1963 inaugural address that he stood for "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever". In 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. called Wallace "perhaps the most dangerous racist in America today". In 1970 he ran in the 1972 Democratic presidential primaries, once again campaigning for segregation.
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