No $ for George C. Wallace museum

Tyrone N. Butts

Tyrone N. Butts

APE Reporter
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Wallace memorabilia searches for home

MONTGOMERY, Ala.-AP) February 14 -- Contributions haven't come in for a Wallace museum. So wooden boxes filled with the personal papers and memorabilia of former Governor George C. Wallace still sit in an Atlanta warehouse as efforts to memorialize him have gone nowhere since his death in 1998.

There are no funds for a museum or research center for Wallace who made four bids for president.

His son, George Wallace Junior, says the family wants to give the artifacts to Alabama's Department of Archives and History for preservation and display. Wal
lace's family hoped to build a museum and research center along Montgomery's riverfront.

State Archivist Ed
Bridges says he'd like to have the collection, but lacks the money to do it justice.

The chairman of a legislative budget committee said the state must make sure the items wind up being preserved. Senator Roger Bedford of Russellville says the state -- quote -- "can't let those artifacts rot."

Margaret Armbrester and Sam Webb, historians at UAB and co-editors of the book "Alabama Governors," said the unsettled nature of the Wallace artifacts is not the result of people's views of him, but rather the size of the collection and the cost of processing it.

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Shameful!

T.N.B.
 
Consider the difference between the Alabama Governor, and the bootlegging Kennedy family--Ted driving of the bridge; Robert and John banging M.M.; rape and murder trails; and of course, the never ending nigger love--for political gain of course. It's cheaper to buy those votes.

Here's some of the bio from the Alabama state site.

http://www.archives.state.al.us/govs_list/g_wallac.html

George Corley Wallace was born to George C. and Mozell (Smith) Wallace at Clio, Alabama, on August 25, 1919. A farmer's son, Wallace and his brothers Jack and Gerald and his sister Marianne attended local schools and helped out on the farm. In 1936, while attending Barbour County High School, Wallace won the state Golden Gloves bantamweight championship and held the title for the following year. He was al
so quite active with the high school football team until his gra
duation in 1937. Wallace enrolled in the University of Alabama Law School in 1937, the same year his father died, leaving the family with limited financial resources. Wallace worked his way through law school by boxing professionally, waiting on tables, serving as a kitchen helper and driving a taxi. Finding time to take part in school activities, he was president of his freshman class, captain of the university boxing team and the freshman baseball team and a member of the highly regarded law school honor court. He received his degree in 1942.
 
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