{"id":432,"date":"2010-03-04T13:10:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T18:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/?p=432"},"modified":"2011-03-16T23:14:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T04:14:39","slug":"wallace-the-confederate-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/2010\/03\/04\/wallace-the-confederate-states\/","title":{"rendered":"1963 GEORGE WALLACE AT GETTYSBURG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?id=oBMsAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=mMYEAAAAIBAJ&amp;dq=wallace%20gettysburg&amp;pg=1397%2C4600\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-376\" style=\"border: 7px solid black;\" title=\"wallace_stand\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/files\/2010\/03\/wallace_stand.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/files\/2010\/03\/wallace_stand.jpg 288w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/files\/2010\/03\/wallace_stand-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a>In July 1963, Alabama governor George Wallace traveled to Gettysburg for the 100th anniversary commemorations of the battle.\u00a0 The article (right) describes George Wallace\u2019s remarks soon after he arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Citation: Florence (AL) <em>Times<\/em>, July 1, 1963, p. 1.\u00a0 Credit: Google News<br \/>\n<strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While Wallace did not appear to make a speech in Gettysburg, he went to Washington D.C. in mid-July 1963 to <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/ncc\/images\/page157.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-433\" style=\"border: 7px solid black;\" title=\"example1\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/files\/2010\/03\/example1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a>testify before the Senate about JFK&#8217;s  proposed civil rights legislation.\u00a0 At one point during the hearing, Wallace referred to the South as &#8220;the Confederate States&#8221; (see excerpt to the right).\u00a0 Source &#8211; Dan T. Carter, <em>The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics<\/em> (New York: Simon &amp; Schuster, 1995), 157.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July 1963, Alabama governor George Wallace traveled to Gettysburg for the 100th anniversary commemorations of the battle.\u00a0 The article (right) describes George Wallace\u2019s remarks soon after he arrived. Citation: Florence (AL) Times, July 1, 1963, p. 1.\u00a0 Credit: Google News &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; While Wallace did not appear to make a speech in Gettysburg, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8648,3975],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arguing-for-justice","category-memory-meaning-1865-2015","tag-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2819,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/2819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}