Fighting the Devil in Dixie by Wayne Greenhaw

Author:Wayne Greenhaw [Greenhaw, Wayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-56976-825-9
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2011-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

Wallace basically repeated the same speech at Dartmouth, Brown, and Smith. Later, he spoke to crowds across the Midwest, where he encountered homemade signs of encouragement carried by hooded and gowned Ku Klux Klansmen. When the word of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas stunned people throughout the world on November 22, Wallace went home to Alabama. He would sit tight until the emotional uproar over Kennedy’s death settled.

During the spring of 1964, Wallace traveled to the West. In Denver, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon, Wallace continued to tell what he called “the true story of segregation and civil rights.” When Wallace swept through the South making similar speeches, his aides called it Operation Dixie. When he arrived in New Orleans, he was met at the airport by white supremacists waving the Confederate Stars and Bars led by judge Leander Perez from Plaquemines Parish and Willie Rainach, who had been engineering Louisiana’s massive resistance against what he called “federal intervention.”

Back in Montgomery, state senator Alton Turner, a staunch Wallace floor leader, was joined by Black Belt senators Walter C. Givhan of Dallas County and Roland Cooper of Wilcox County to give the Commission to Preserve the Peace broader powers to not only subpoena witnesses but to have them immediately confined to jail for contempt if they did not comply. Opposing the bill were progressive senators led by Bob Gilchrist of Morgan County and Finus St. John of Cullman County. The latter group managed to fight off a vote through an entire legislative session.

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