Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under a sign exhorting "Stand Up for America," Wallace mounted a rostrum at the Pittsburgh Hilton to address his first Northern audience since announcing for the presidency. While an S.R.O. crowd of 2,000 cheered and shouted "Amen!" and "Tell it like it is, George!", Alabama's former Governor sneered, winked and thundered through a 50-minute attack on everything from the Supreme Court to his favorite target, "pseudo-intellectuals." When it was over, he had in hand a thousand more signatures than the 10,551 needed to place his American Independent Party on Pennsylvania's presidential ballot...
Nonetheless, Wallace will continue his campaign to get on 49 states' presidential ballots (Ohio's requirements are too tough). He intends to keep barnstorming until the election with his 21-member campaign entourage in a chartered DC-6, meanwhile governing Alabama via a sophisticated telephone hookup that keeps him in constant communication with the state. Only his wife's illness could possibly slow him down. Last week when Lurleen Wallace underwent emergency cancer surgery for the third time in two years, George canceled all speaking engagements to join...
...turned to promote sales of goods produced by Negro enterprises, threatening boycotts to force stores to stock such products as Mumbo barbecue sauce and Diamond Sparkle wax. "Mumbo grew 600% in only four months," exults Jackson, who is now negotiating with Chicago stores to market the produce of an Alabama farm cooperative run by dispossessed Negro sharecroppers...
Party spokesmen have also tried to neutralize Wallace's appeal by attacking his record of "socialist welfare measures" in Alabama. When Wallace told an audience that he considers himself "a populist," the Republican state chairman in Georgia said that just means he is "a socialistic racist...
Wallace told the press that his wife, Alabama Governor Lurleen Wallace, had been a spiritual force behind his decision to run. But Mrs. Wallace, recovering from her latest series of radiation treatments for pelvic cancer at Houston's M. D. Anderson Hospital, could not come to Washington for George's announcement...