| Summary: | In the speech, Wallace makes his famous statement against integration (starting at the 7:14 mark): "Today I have stood, where once Jefferson Davis stood, and took an oath to my people. It is very appropriate that from this Cradle of the Confederacy, this very Heart of the Great Anglo-Saxon Southland, that today we sound the drum for freedom as have our generations of forebears before us done, time and again through history. Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South. In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny...and I say...segregation now...segregation tomorrow...segregation forever." The text of the speech is available at https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/voices/id/2952.
This film was preserved through a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.
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