"We do it for George."

[DemocraticPatriot]

7. I was a small child when George Wallace ran for president in 1968...

It was the first presidential general election that I remember. I was five years old at the time, and our family was attending a black AME church. We were the only white family there...

I clearly remember my mother telling me that Wallace was a racist---
thus a totally ineligible choice for President in 1968.


I remember when he was shot during his campaign for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination, effectively ending his campaign.

Using all the logic I possessed at the age of 10,
I was not sorry that it happened. I suppose I thought that he "had it coming"...


Of course Wallace later tried to recant and repent of everything, later in his life, and even convinced many black voters to vote for him in his late campaigns to become governor again....

... but I don't think he could repair all the damage that he had done earlier in his life.

The dominant image of his life will remain "standing in the school house door",
trying to prevent black students from getting an education in the state of Alabama...