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      • Episode 5: "Radical"
      • Episode 6: "Power"
      • Episode 7: "Democrats for Nixon
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      • Of The People
        • Episode 1: "1968"
        • Episode 2: "Long Shot"
        • Episode 3: "Contender"
        • Episode 4: "The Other George"
        • Episode 5: "Radical"
        • Episode 6: "Power"
        • Episode 7: "Democrats for Nixon
      • Landslide: Engines of Outrage

Episode 4: "The Other George"

Bibliography

Summary: A surprise frontrunner emerges in the 1972 Democratic primaries: the race-baiting, segregationist Alabama governor George Wallace.

Episode Bibliography

 

Books:

 

  • George Wallace: American populist, by Stephan Lesher, 1994

  • The Politics of Rage, by Dan Carter, 1995

  • From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich, by Dan Carter, 1992

  • The Long Shot, by Gordon Weil, 1973

  • Nixonland, by Rick Perlstein, 2008

 

Articles:

 

  • New York Times, “Loud and Clear,” March 1972

  • PBS, “George Wallace and His Circle,” April 2000

  • ABC, “James Hood, Civil Rights-Era Segregation Opponent at University of Alabama, Dead at 70,” January 2013

  • New York Times, “Selma, 20 Years After The Rights March,” March 1985

  • POLITICO, “LBJ Protects Civil Rights March, March 20, 1965,” March 2016

  • New York Times, “Alabama Vote Drive Opened By Dr. King,” January 1965

  • New York Times, “Johnson Signs Voting Rights Bill, Orders Immediate Enforcement; 4 Suits Will Challenge Poll Tax,” August 1965

  • Smithsonian Magazine, “The 1968 Kerner Commission Got It Right, But Nobody Listened,” March 2018

  • New York Times, “Wallace Accepts Support of Klan,” September 1967

  • New York Times, “Welch Calls a Nixon Election Boon to Pro-Reds,” October 1968

  • Washington Post, “Arthur Bremer Shot Gov. George Wallace To Be Famous. A Search For Who He Is Today,” December 2015

 

Studies and Other Primary Sources:

 

  • U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, Hearings on the Civil Rights Bill, September 1963

  • John Lewis, Testimony after the March from Selma

  • Library of Congress, The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom

  • Kerner Commission Report On The Causes, Events, and Civil Disorders of 1967, 1967

 

Historical speeches, news footage, and other archival tape excerpted in the episode were gathered from:

 

  • Alabama Department of Archives and History

  • Alexander Street Media

  • Ball State University

  • Brown Media Archive at the University of Georgia

  • Center for Sacramento History

  • CSPAN

  • John F. Kennedy Library

  • Museum of the Moving Image

  • Vanderbilt Television News Archive

  • Virginia Center for Digital History

  • Washington University in St. Louis

  • YouTube

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