George Wallace speaking on stage at a rally in the Municipal Auditorium in Birmingham, Alabama, during Lurleen Wallace's gubernatorial campaign.
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Peppler, Jim
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A large Confederate flag is hanging behind the stage. Congressman Armistead Selden, Lurleen Wallace, and Congressman George Andrews are seated beside the podium. This image was taken for (but not used in) the article "But the Negroes Had to Sit Upstairs in the Balcony" by Mary Wissler, which appeared on pages 1 and 6 of The Southern Courier for October 8-9, 1966. The issue is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No41_1966_10_08.pdf
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1966 October
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