Prevent Forced Busing Wallace November (3 results)

17 by 11 inches. Card stock printed in red and black, with halftone photograph. Staining to top half with some splashes beneath. Small tear to top edge, minor surface loss at the bottom edge affecting the "Paid Pol." text, else a good example. Image features an apparently frightened young girl standing in front of the South Side Elementary School with a group of African American children in the background.

Cardstock. Condition: Near fine. The George Wallace 1972 Campaign Poster: Prevent Forced Busing With Wallace on November 7th, published by the Friends of Wallace. (illustrator). Campaign Poster. Broadside in black and red print, measures 17" x 11". Pencil note on verso, faint thumb mark along bottom edge of front panel, otherwise a fine example. The photograph illustrates a white girl waiting for a bus at South Side Elementary, with African American girls in the background. In the 1972 presidential campaign, Alabama Governor George Wallace (1919-1998) ran as a Democrat, positioning himself as a champion of Southern populism and a critic of the federal government's civil rights policies. His campaign gained significant traction in the South, winning him primaries in Alabama, Florida, Tennessee and others. On May 15, 1972, Wallace was shot five times by Arthur Bremer during a campaign stop in Laurel, Maryland. The assassination attempt left Wallace paralyzed from the waist down, effectively ending his active pursuit of the presidency that year, though he remained a symbolic figure in American politics.

Condition: Very Good. [Poster] 43 x 28 cm. Red and black lettering with grainy black and white photo (26 x 11 cm.) in center. Some browning and wear along top edge. Information line in small type at bottom of poster missing bottom portion of most letters making the line hard to read. Grainy black and white photo shows a solitary white girl standing nervously apart from a group of African American students standing outside South Side Elementary School. We don't know where this school was located.