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Man, I don't even know where to begin with this
First of all, yes, of course George Wallace was a Democrat. Most southern segregationists in the 1960s were.
If you think this is some kind of clever gotcha, you *really* should have paid more attention in history class.
Second, yes, George Wallace *did* stand in the schoolhouse door to keep African American college students -- who weren't really "kids" -- from going to the University of Alabama.
But, hey, who was standing on the other side? Different Democrats!
Here's the iconic photo.
That's Wallace standing off to the left. And on the right, trying to escort Vivian Malone and James Hood onto campus and sweating hard, that's Deputy Attorney General Nick Katzenbach from the Kennedy administration.
Kennedy was a Democrat, by the way.
The "stand in the schoolhouse door" illustrates the internal divide in the Democratic Party over racial issues in the 1960s.
On one side (literally!), the old Dixiecrats who used to control the party; on the other, the new northern, liberal Democrats who favored civil rights.
George Wallace. The Democrat who stood in the schoolhouse door trying to keep black kids from going to white schools. The Democrat... https://t.co/nZL7n937nX
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) October 23, 2018
First of all, yes, of course George Wallace was a Democrat. Most southern segregationists in the 1960s were.
If you think this is some kind of clever gotcha, you *really* should have paid more attention in history class.
Second, yes, George Wallace *did* stand in the schoolhouse door to keep African American college students -- who weren't really "kids" -- from going to the University of Alabama.
But, hey, who was standing on the other side? Different Democrats!
Here's the iconic photo.
That's Wallace standing off to the left. And on the right, trying to escort Vivian Malone and James Hood onto campus and sweating hard, that's Deputy Attorney General Nick Katzenbach from the Kennedy administration.
Kennedy was a Democrat, by the way.
The "stand in the schoolhouse door" illustrates the internal divide in the Democratic Party over racial issues in the 1960s.
On one side (literally!), the old Dixiecrats who used to control the party; on the other, the new northern, liberal Democrats who favored civil rights.