Picket George Wallace appearance in Rockville: 1964
Two long lines of Catholic priests and theological students marched in silent protest at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, Md. May 16, 1964 as Alabama Gov. George Wallace delivered an anti-civil rights, anti-federal government message during his first campaign for president.
Inside, several hundred anti-Wallace protesters stood when the Governor entered the auditorium while upwards of 1,000 supporters booed. Once outside the school, several dozen set up a separate picket line organized by the Congress of Racial Equality.
Competing with the two lines of picketers, were two hundred Wallace supporters who were unable to get inside the school. They heckled the priests taunting them with questions like, “Did the church make you come?”
Wallace’s appearance was sponsored by the right-wing Congress for National Sovereignty.
Wallace gained fame among white supremacists with his contrived act of “standing in the schoolhouse door” in 1963 to block two African American students from entering the University of Alabama. Wallace’s slogan was “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”
He ran for president three times in 1964, 1968 and 1972. His 1972 campaign largely ended when he was shot and paralyzed in Laurel, Md. by Arthur Bremer in 1972.
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Picket George Wallace appearance in Rockville: 1964
Two long lines of Catholic priests and theological students marched in silent protest at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, Md. May 16, 1964 as Alabama Gov. George Wallace delivered an anti-civil rights, anti-federal government message during his first campaign for president.
Inside, several hundred anti-Wallace protesters stood when the Governor entered the auditorium while upwards of 1,000 supporters booed. Once outside the school, several dozen set up a separate picket line organized by the Congress of Racial Equality.
Competing with the two lines of picketers, were two hundred Wallace supporters who were unable to get inside the school. They heckled the priests taunting them with questions like, “Did the church make you come?”
Wallace’s appearance was sponsored by the right-wing Congress for National Sovereignty.
Wallace gained fame among white supremacists with his contrived act of “standing in the schoolhouse door” in 1963 to block two African American students from entering the University of Alabama. Wallace’s slogan was “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”
He ran for president three times in 1964, 1968 and 1972. His 1972 campaign largely ended when he was shot and paralyzed in Laurel, Md. by Arthur Bremer in 1972.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHskzBFDmR
The photographer is unknown. The image is an auction find.