Sources and Links

Albany Student Press, October 1968

The Knickerbocker News, 10 October 1968

The Times Union, 10 October 1968

Audio

Excerpt of Wallace’s Stand In The Schoolhouse Door (1963)

Commentary on Racial Violence in Alabama (1963)

Wallace speech/ critique of the federal judiciary

Documents & Summaries

Text of George Wallace’s speech, “Stand In the Schoolhouse Door”

Text of Martin Luther King’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail”

The 1964 Civil Rights Act signed by President Lyndon Johnson

Alabama governor George Wallace’s response to the Civil Rights Act (1964)

A summary of the Kerner Report

The American Independent Party’s platform in 1968

Read about Albany’s General Philip H. Sheridan, a Reconstruction enforcer in Texas
and Louisiana

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