Jamie Chambers: A few years back I found out that a family member had once worked at the campaign HQ for George Wallace—most famous for giving the "segregation forever" speech and standing in the courthouse door to prevent a black woman from attending the University of Alabama.

A few years back I found out that a family member had once worked at the campaign HQ for George Wallace—most famous for giving the "segregation forever" speech and standing in the courthouse door to prevent a black woman from attending the University of Alabama.

My temporary obsession with learning everything I could about Wallace was one of the motivating factors in starting our podcast—I wanted to tell my sister about this incredibly frustrating man who got dangerously close the White House but instead received an assassin's bullet.

The first episode of our THREE part series on George C. Wallace's entire life is now up on our YouTube channel (as well as your favorite podcast app). Find out how this dirt-poor little boy went from fighting his brothers in the backyard to winning the highest office in Alabama.

Check it out and subscribe if you want to hear me and my sister swear our way through a conversation about an infuriating man in a frustrating and difficult chapter in American history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPjb...

Part One: George Wallace Was Worse Than A Racistwww.youtube.com 💵 Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chainsawhistory 🎧 Listen on your favorite podcast app: http://listen.chainsawhistory.com 💻 Learn more and support the show on our website: http://www.chainsawhistory.com Podcast siblings Jamie Chambers and Bambi Chambers jump back to their family roots in rural Alabama as they examine the life of the state's most infamous governor, George Wallace. They following the "fighting little judge" from his beginnings in abject poverty to reaching a seat of real power. Wallace's thirst for power parallels the fight for racial justice in the growing Civil Rights movement. Is it worse to be a true racist or to use racism as a political weapon? This begins a three-part complicated story about a segregationist governor once endorsed by the NAACP.

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