George Wallace - the staunch segregationist who divided a nation and launched a conservative movement.

George Corley Wallace was born on August 25, 1919 in a four-room shotgun house just off Main Street in Clio, Alabama. In all, the Wallaces had four children: George, Gerald, Jack, and Marianne. The family, like many others in the rural South and elsewhere in the United States, suffered hardships with the collapse of the economy during the Depression. George's political leanings were, no doubt, ...

George Corley Wallace 1963-1967 1971-1975 1975-1979 1983-1987 George Wallace's 1963 inaugural address George Corley Wallace was born to George C. and Mozell (Smith) Wallace at Clio, Alabama, on August 25, 1919. A farmer's son, Wallace and his brothers Jack and Gerald and his sister Marianne attended local schools and helped out on the farm. In 1936, while attending Barbour County High School, ...