Harford Votes for Wallace, 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
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…