COMICS WITH PROBLEMS issue #19
GEORGE WALLACE FOR THE BIG JOB
Sixteen page Gubernatorial Campaign Booklet, commissioned directly by George Wallace for his bid for Governor of Alabama during the 1962 election. Wallace had lost to John Patterson in a previous election. Patterson was backed directly by the KKK. Wallace claimed "NO ONE WILL EVER OUT-N*GGER ME AGAIN", producing this booklet for the following election. Comic book is credited with helping him win.
PROBLEM(s) DEALT WITH:
1) Defense of the Alabamian Way of Life vs. Washington Government telling Alabamiams how to run their elections.
2) Battling the Civil Rights Commission.
3) Being ruined politically by Washington.
4) Segregation, and the argument there is no Constitutional enforcement to not Segregrate, see "Alabamiam Way of Life" (or item #1)
5) Overcoming Wallace childhood: Chopping wood, Mules, Plowing corn, Picking cotton, Depression.
6) Graduating Law School
7) World War II
8) Defense of "crippled, blind and underprivileged [white] veterans."
9) Industry, Job training, and Welfare for white Alabamians.
10) Fighting Communism (see page 12)
11) Segregated Schools (e.g. see item #1)
12) Paved Roads, Pensions, Liquor Agency corruption
13) Removal of "every [northern] freedom rider, sit in, and every other troublemaker backed by the NAACP that meddles in our affairs."
14) Sobriety and Religion.
15) all other problems, please see Alabamian Way of Life, e.g. item #1.
FUTURE PROBLEM(s)
NOT ADDRESSED IN THIS BOOKLET:
1) Desegration of Alabama Schools
2) FBI infiltration of the KKK
3) Hippies
4) A bid for the 1972 Presidency
5) Attempted Assassination
6) Becoming Crippled
7) Multiple Divorces
Link:
http://www.ep.tc/problems/nineteen (
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