In July 1963, Alabama governor George Wallace traveled to Gettysburg for the 100th anniversary commemorations of the battle.  The article (right) describes George Wallace’s remarks soon after he arrived.

Citation: Florence (AL) Times, July 1, 1963, p. 1.  Credit: Google News

 

 

 

While Wallace did not appear to make a speech in Gettysburg, he went to Washington D.C. in mid-July 1963 to testify before the Senate about JFK’s proposed civil rights legislation.  At one point during the hearing, Wallace referred to the South as “the Confederate States” (see excerpt to the right).  Source – Dan T. Carter, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 157.