Summary: A surprise frontrunner emerges in the 1972 Democratic primaries: the race-baiting, segregationist Alabama governor George Wallace.
Episode Bibliography
Books:
George Wallace: American populist, by Stephan Lesher, 1994
The Politics of Rage, by Dan Carter, 1995
From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich, by Dan Carter, 1992
The Long Shot, by Gordon Weil, 1973
Nixonland, by Rick Perlstein, 2008
Articles:
New York Times, “Loud and Clear,” March 1972
PBS, “George Wallace and His Circle,” April 2000
ABC, “James Hood, Civil Rights-Era Segregation Opponent at University of Alabama, Dead at 70,” January 2013
New York Times, “Selma, 20 Years After The Rights March,” March 1985
POLITICO, “LBJ Protects Civil Rights March, March 20, 1965,” March 2016
New York Times, “Alabama Vote Drive Opened By Dr. King,” January 1965
New York Times, “Johnson Signs Voting Rights Bill, Orders Immediate Enforcement; 4 Suits Will Challenge Poll Tax,” August 1965
Smithsonian Magazine, “The 1968 Kerner Commission Got It Right, But Nobody Listened,” March 2018
New York Times, “Wallace Accepts Support of Klan,” September 1967
New York Times, “Welch Calls a Nixon Election Boon to Pro-Reds,” October 1968
Washington Post, “Arthur Bremer Shot Gov. George Wallace To Be Famous. A Search For Who He Is Today,” December 2015
Studies and Other Primary Sources:
U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, Hearings on the Civil Rights Bill, September 1963
John Lewis, Testimony after the March from Selma
Library of Congress, The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom
Kerner Commission Report On The Causes, Events, and Civil Disorders of 1967, 1967
Historical speeches, news footage, and other archival tape excerpted in the episode were gathered from:
Alabama Department of Archives and History
Alexander Street Media
Ball State University
Brown Media Archive at the University of Georgia
Center for Sacramento History
CSPAN
John F. Kennedy Library
Museum of the Moving Image
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Virginia Center for Digital History
Washington University in St. Louis
YouTube