(CIVIL RIGHTS) WALLACE GEORGE It Takes Courage Wallace Has I

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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) WALLACE, GEORGE. It Takes Courage! Wallace Has It! Do You? Red, white and blue poster with photographic image of Wallace; on the reverse someone has painted "The Garden of Eden," couple of wrinkles to the corners. Montgomery, 1968

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presidential campaign poster for the notorious segregationist, george wallace. George Corley Wallace, Jr. (1919 -1998) was the 45th Governor of Alabama, serving four terms: 1963-1967, 1971-1979 and 1983-1987. "The most influential loser" in 20th-century U.S. politics, according to biographers Dan T. Carter and Stephan Lesher. He ran for U.S. president four times, running officially as a Democrat three times and in the American Independent Party once. A 1972 assassination attempt left him paralyzed; he used a wheelchair for the rest of his life. To stop desegregation by the enrollment of black students Vivian Malone and James Hood, he stood in front of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963 and blocked their entrance. After being confronted by federal marshals, Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, and the Alabama National Guard, he stood aside.