Gov. Lurleen Wallace addresses a televised joint session on school racial integration in the House chamber at the Capitol in Montgomery in March 1967 after the decision in Lee v. Macon County. The governor vowed to use state troopers to stop federally mandated desegregation.
Gov. Lurleen Wallace Addresses Legislature
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