George Wallace might not be the most well known person in the history of the US, but he was a key person during the Civil Rights Movement. George Wallace ran for governor of Alabama in the election of 1958. His opponent, John Patterson, was said to have won due to the fact that he was supported by the Ku Klux Klan, while Wallace was supported but the NAACP. After that election, Wallace decided that the only way for him to win was to adopt a hard segregation policy. Due to the change in policy, Wallace won the election of ’62 and during his inaugural speech stated, “In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”  The speech was written by a Klansman by the name of Asa Carter, who later became Wallace’s speechwriter during his time as governor. On June 11, 1963, Wallace was at the University of Alabama and delivered a speech to try to stop the enrollment of black students to the University. Wallace then decided to run for president. When he ran for governor for a second term he used openly racist campaign aids, once he won he would run for president three more times. The only thing that he would state in his campaigns would be to make sure that America would remain a place of segregation. However all of his views changed on May 15, 1792 George Wallace was shoot five times by a would-be assassin by the name of Arthur Bremer. This assassination attempt changed him, and he became a born-again Christian. In the later years as governor of Alabama, he appointed African- Americans to places in the government, and apologized too many civil rights leaders.

            George Wallace might not be the “normal” person of faith, nor a person that people would consider to have any faith. However, he did truly believe in all of the speeches and all of the pro-segregation values he had. He never faltered in any of his ideals during his time as governor, until he was shot. In my mind if he was not shot, he probably would not have changed his values. This proves how much Wallace put himself on the line for his values, and ideals. He put himself out there so much that people tried to kill him because of what he believed in. Even though he was a person who had faith in things that most of the world did not believe in, he did still have faith in something. Since one can not really say that another’s faith is bad, George Wallace can be considered a person of faith.