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America in '68: George Wallace, The First Donald Trump (Part 4)

11/7/2024 • 68 min

“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!” George Wallace, Governor of Alabama, was one of the most successful third-party presidential candidates in American history. In 1968, he ran a populist campaign pitching himself against the Civil Rights movement. He pushed to uphold formal structures of white supremacy in the South, forever employing… Play episode

America in '68: The Killing of Robert Kennedy (Part 3)
America in '68: The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Part 2)
America in '68: Nightmare in Vietnam (Part 1)
The French Revolution: The Marseillaise, Song of War (Part 5)
The French Revolution: Massacre at the Palace (Part 4)
The French Revolution: The Shadow of the Guillotine (Part 3)
The French Revolution: War to the Death (Part 2)
The French Revolution: Bloodbath in Paris (Part 1)
The Roman Conquest of Britain: To the Ends of the Earth (Part 4)
The Roman Conquest of Britain: Boudicca’s Reign of Blood (Part 3)
The Roman Conquest of Britain: The Empire Strikes Back (Part 2)
The Roman Conquest of Britain: Julius Caesar’s Invasion (Part 1)
Evita: The Mystery of the Missing Body (Part 5)
Evita: Death of a Martyr (Part 4)
Evita: The World's Most Powerful Woman (Part 3)
Evita: The Rise of General Perón (Part 2)
Evita: Birth of a Legend (Part 1)
Lee Miller: Exposing the Horrors of World War Two
The War on Beards: From Peter the Great to John Lennon (Part 2)
History's Greatest Beards: From Egyptian Queens to Medieval Conquerors (Pa…
Hundred Years' War: England Triumphant (Part 4)
Hundred Years' War: Bloodbath at Agincourt (Part 3)
Hundred Years' War: The Road to Agincourt (Part 2)
Hundred Years' War: Henry V’s Invasion of France (Part 1)
Henry IV: Warrior Princes and Fat Knights (Part 2)
Henry IV: The Usurper King (Part 1)
The Food that Changed the World
The Mysterious Case of the Ape Man
The French Revolution: The Royal Family Escapes (Part 8)
The French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles (Part 7)
The French Revolution: The Rights of Man (Part 6)
The French Revolution: The Storming of the Bastille (Part 5)
The French Revolution: Showdown in Versailles (Part 4)
The French Revolution: The Violence Begins (Part 3)
The French Revolution: The Diamond Necklace Scandal (Part 2)
The French Revolution: Marie Antoinette (Part 1)
The Road to The Great War: The Lights Go Out (Part 6)
The Road to The Great War: The Tsar Chooses War (Part 5)
The Road to The Great War: Britain's Fateful Choice (Part 4)
The Road to The Great War: The Austrian Ultimatum (Part 3)
The Road to The Great War: The Kaiser’s Blank Cheque (Part 2)
The Road to The Great War: Countdown to Armageddon (Part 1)
The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Crime (Part 4)
The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Victim (Part 3)
The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Conspiracy (Part 2)
The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1)
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Extract)
Modern British Elections (Part 2)
Mad Elections (Part 1)

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