For Americans, the world seemed to turn upside down in 1968. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in April. In response, race riots broke out in some 125 cities across the nation; the riot in ...

Determined to "outnigger" the opposition in his 1962 bid for governor, George Wallace turned to the politics of race with a new fiery speechwriter, Asa Carter. Carter, a right-wing radio announcer ...

CNN anchor Abby Phillip made comedian George Wallace do a double-take when she interjected that President Donald Trump “is a comedian in his own right” as Wallace was extolling comics as ...

Wallace is elected judge in the Third Judicial Circuit Court in 1953 and held this position through 1959. August 25: George Corley Wallace is born in Clio, Barbour County, Alabama, to George C.

George Wallace's political career included four bids for the presidency of the United States. In 1964, 1972, and 1976 he ran as a Democrat, failing three times to receive the party's nomination.

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 ...

On March 25, 1965, triumphant civil rights demonstrators led by Martin Luther King, Jr. marched into Montgomery, Alabama. It was the culmination of a fifty-mile procession from Selma. As they ...

After a comedy career lasting almost 50 years, Atlanta’s George Wallace is still keen on making audiences laugh, most recently in the Amazon show "Clean Slate." ...