George Wallace Defeated at the Schoolhouse Door
The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, Washington, D.C.
When George Wallace was inaugurated as governor of Alabama in 1963, he took the oath of office in the portico of the Alabama State Capitol building, standing on the very spot where Jefferson Davis had been sworn in as president of the Confederacy.
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