I remember George Wallace "Standing in the School House Door" and his speeches about segregation. BUT I also remember that he made the state start furnishing school books, instead of having student's families furnish them. I remember when he had the lunchrooms feed breakfast, and had the state furnish decent clothing, all to allow our colored brothers a real chance to go to school and learn. That helped more than just giving some money, that didn't always go to the kids. I didn't go to school with them, but I did work with them for the county, as "day hands", for $5/day. I remember one telling me White folks aren't prejudiced, when he worked in the yard for white women in Tuskegee, they would fix ice water or tea for him; but when he worked for a light skinned African American( he used the "N" word), they wouldn't even let him drink from the yard faucet. He said that was prejudice.
Mike