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...question of civil rights, Wallace is a much different man. He combines the zeal of the true believer with the politician's sharp eye for the success that a segregationist stand can bring in the South. He has deliberately defied the law of the land. He has deliberately sought showdown confrontations with the Federal Government. When those showdowns came, he without exception retreated-as he knew all the while he would have...
...Birmingham's Sunday school bombing. Today, many Alabamians who yield nothing to Wallace in their devotion to segregation accuse him of bringing about the bombing almost as surely as if he himself had planted the dynamite sticks. Says Birmingham Real Estate Dealer Sidney Smyer, 66, a lifelong segregationist and former state legislator who in recent months has tried to act as a mediator in his city's racial disputes: "There wouldn't have been any trouble if Wallace had stayed out. Why did he do it? Why didn't he let us alone...
Across the whole valley, the federal presence has created the most economically and racially stable section of Alabama. A few months ago, for example, Huntsville desegregated its eating places with hardly a segregationist howl to be heard...
...campaign as a diehard defender of segregation, but as a candidate who would work to bolster Ala bama's economy, build better schools and better highways. He was defeated in the Democratic primary by John Patterson (TIME cover, June 2, 1961), who did run on an all-out segregationist plat form. In that defeat Wallace learned a lesson. "They just out-segged me," he said to friends. "They're never going to do that again...
They never have. Wallace ran again for Governor in 1962, and this time he was spouting segregationist fire that burned hotter than Vulcan's torch. "As your Governor," he cried, "I shall refuse to abide by illegal court orders to the point of standing at the school-house door if necessary...