George and Lurleen Wallace

George Wallace

Interment LocationVisited 
Montgomery, ALJune 10, 2013 


"Today I have stood, where once Jefferson Davis stood, and took an oath to my people. It is very appropriate that from this Cradle of the Confederacy, this very Heart of the Great Anglo-Saxon Southland, that today we sound the drum for freedom as have our generations of forebears before us done, time and again through history. Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South. In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny...and I say...segregation now...segregation tomorrow...segregation forever."
- George Wallace
in his inaugural address as governor, delivered at the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery on January 14, 1963
Photographed October 10, 2023.

Sources Consulted and Further Reading

Richard Friend. “LAUREL SHOPPING CENTER + GEORGE WALLACE, 40 YEARS LATER.” Lost Laurel (blog). May 15, 2012. https://lostlaurel.com/2012/05/15/laurel-shopping-center-george-wallace-40-years-later/.

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