Video: 'George Wallace "Segregation Forever" Speech'

(Monday, January 14, 1963, shortly after 1:00 p.m. CST; during the Civil rights movement) — George Wallace was sworn as governor of Alabama today in Montgomery standing on the gold star marking the spot where, nearly 102 years earlier, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as provisional president of the Confederate States of America, promising his followers, “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!”

Video: 'George Wallace - Segregation forever.mp4'

In his inaugural speech, Wallace defiantly proclaimed “In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say ‘segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever.’ Let us send this message back to Washington, that from this day we are standing up, and the heel of tyranny does not fit the neck of an upright man.”