Harford Votes for Wallace, 1964

ID: 50 ~ Source: The Record newspaper (Havre de Grace, Maryland) ~ Creator: Harford Civil Rights Project ~ Date: May 21, 1964

This file appears in: Rise of the Teachers and Students: Full Desegregation Finally

This is a headline and brief clip from an article in The Record of Havre de Grace announcing voting results in the 1964 primaries. In Harford County, Democratic voters went barely for George Wallace, the fiery segregationist governor of Alabama. The results demonstrate the persistence of popular support for segregation in Harford at this late date.

This file appears in: Rise of the Teachers and Students: Full Desegregation Finally

Rise of the Teachers and Students: Full Desegregation Finally

By James Karmel

The actions of parents and students to force desegregation of American schools are a famous story of the civil rights era. The Brown vs. Board of Education case (1954), for example or the desegregation of high schools in Little Rock, Arkansas were…