Rankin Fite, seated in the Speaker' chair and listening to Lurleen Wallace give an address in the House chamber at the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
Fite was Speaker of the House from 1967 to 1971. The men are listening to Governor Lurleen Wallace address a joint session of the legislature, which was held to discuss the federal court order requiring statewide school desegregation. The governor had asked the legislators to give her the power to...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/7251 |