| Summary: | The following segments are included:
0:00:01: George Wallace visiting Chicago and Cicero, Illinois, on September 30, 1968, during his presidential campaign.
0:03:32: George Wallace visiting Jackson and Flint, Michigan, on October 1, 1968, during his presidential campaign. A significant number of protesters are among the rally attendees; one of them (at 0:04:19) holds a marked-up campaign sign that has been edited to read, "It Takes Ignorance / Wallace Has It! Do You? Stand Up for America?" and features a hand-drawn swastika and an image of Wallace with a mustache and hairstyle like Adolph Hitler's.
0:07:23: Curtis Lemay speaking at news conference in Montgomery, Alabama, while in town for a Republican fundraiser at the Jefferson Davis Hotel on September 16, 1967.
0:10:07: Secretary of State Mabel Amos explaining why she had denied candidates from the National Democratic Party of Alabama (NDPA) a position on the ballot in the upcoming election. (She does, however, mention that she allowed William McKinley Branch to run for U.S. Congress from the 5th District.) The interview was filmed on September 10, 1968.
0:11:45: John Cashin, chairman of the National Democratic Party of Alabama (NDPA), speaking at a meeting at Oak Street AME Zion Church in Montgomery on September 11, 1968. He discusses the recent decision by Secretary of State Mabel Amos to deny most NDPA candidates a place on the ballot in the upcoming election. (Richard Boone is speaking at the beginning of the clip, though the footage is silent.)
0:13:09: Governor Albert Brewer visiting Lanier High School in Lanett, Alabama, on September 12, 1968. Principal L. B. Sykes led the tour, which was also attended by Charles Snell, state representative from Chambers County, and Floyd Mann, director of public safety. A recent federal court order on school integration had mandated that the following year, Lanier would be converted to an elementary school serving both white and black students. (For more photographs of the school, see https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/photo/id/45907.)
0:17:02: John Cashin, chairman of the National Democratic Party of Alabama (NDPA), speaking at a meeting at Oak Street AME Zion Church in Montgomery on September 11, 1968. He expresses optimism that the party will be represented on the ballot in the upcoming election (despite recent rejections by the secretary of state), and he encourages attendees to vote for NDPA candidates: "If you will get as many people as possible among your friends and in your acquaintances to vote that straight Democratic ticket under that American Eagle, you will be casting your vote for freedom and change in the state of Alabama. And not only in the state of Alabama, but this message will get across all over the South and all over the country that we here in the heart of Wallace Land, that we dare to stand and say and cast the vote for decency, for change, against racism, against divisive politics, against setting brother against brother, white against black, rich against poor. If you will do this in November, next we may change the United States, too, and the world. It can come from Alabama. George Wallace is not the only thing we can export."
0:19:18: Joe Reed, executive secretary of the Alabama State Teachers Association, addressing an audience Alabama State College in September 1968 (possibly the annual ASTA-NEA Fall Leadership Conference). He expresses his opposition to Governor Albert Brewer's recent proposal to abolish teacher tenure in the state.
0:22:45: WSFA-TV's George Mitchell interviewing Dr. T. C. Nolan Montgomery in February or March 1968. The discuss the city's plan to address the shortage of emergency room facilities and staff, which had been handled by sharing such responsibilities among the city's hospitals. Nolan was chairman of the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce's Health Committee that was examining the issue; during the interview, he explains that St. Jude's Catholic Hospital will now be included in the rotation.
0:24:40: Frank Lee, state prison commissioner, announcing the desegregation of Alabama penal institutions during a press conference on March 19, 1968. The move came after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal court order mandating the integration, which was issued the previous year. WSFA-TV's George Mitchell is among the reporters present.
0:27:03: WSFA-TV's Bob Inman interviewing former Attorney General Richmond Flowers in February 1968. They discuss the upcoming presidential election (and George Wallace's campaign in particular) and his plans to run for governor in 1970.
0:29:30: Mayor George Seibels of Birmingham, Alabama, addressing a meeting of the Montgomery Kiwanis Club at the Whitley Hotel on June 11, 1968.
0:33:55: Governor Brewer speaking at his weekly press conference on June 12, 1968. He expresses his opposition to federal gun control laws, and he defends freedom of choice as a viable method for achieving school integration in the state.
0:37:23 Governor Albert Brewer defending the state merit system against accusations of discrimination during a press conference on June 13, 1968: "We're going to continue to meet any effort, regardless of the source, to tear apart our merit system, especially if such efforts are made to give to anyone preferred treatment rather than equal treatment. Our merit system rule regarding the selection of employees is the same as the federal civil service system rule, and I can only feel that this lawsuit is an attempt to force the state to hire our employees on some basis other than merit. Our merit system was set up to prevent political pressures from interfering with the hiring and promotion of state employees. We intend to defend it against this unwarranted attack."
0:38:54: Governor Albert Brewer speaking at a press conference on June 17, 1968, during the Southern Governor's Conference in Charleston, South Carolina. He expresses his continued support for George Wallace in the presidential campaign and discusses his own views on race in response to a question about Wallace's stance: "I would class myself I think as a segregationist like all southerners who've been in politics through the years. I first entered in 1954 and have come up through the ranks. I am not a racist and I do not consider him to be a racist."
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