Bjørn Stærk — Each time Wallace appeared on the air he...

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Each time Wallace appeared on the air he outflanked smug liberals by mentioning the uprisings they were ignoring in their own backyards—the defeat of open housing in Berkeley (“they voted just like the people in Alabama”), the “sleep-in” in the office of liberal Republican Colorado governor John Love. Wallace said he disagreed with Abraham Lincoln when the great man said that Negroes should not vote, serve on juries, or hold public office—although he agreed with Lincoln that equality for Negroes could come only through education, uplift, and time. “Perplexed convulsions,” was how one newspaper described it when half an audience exploded in laughter at one of his jokes, half the chucklers worrying whether this made them sympathizers with the Ku Klux Klan.
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