Lurleen and the children -- Peggy Sue was born in 1950 and George, Jr. followed 18 months later -- took a backseat to Wallace’s true love, politics. Fed up with Wallace’s neglectful ...

August 25: George Corley Wallace is born in Clio ... August 28: Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his "I have a dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial to the 250,000 people gathered for the ...

Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in April ... began to wonder if perhaps the country needed a "law and order" leader like George Wallace. In contrast to Republican Richard Nixon ...