Lurleen Wallace, Proxy Governor (1967)
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The Relationship Between George Wallace and Lorlin Wallace
This is a way for him to extend his power because he had already been governor, and there was a constitutional band in place that said there were term limits. And i think it's worth saying that this is an extension of women's second class citizenship that's still in place at this moment in us. When my mam was applying for a credit card in the early 19 seventies, she got turned down. The letter that turned her down said that she needed her husband's signature in order to be extended credit. This idea that women's social and political identities were subsumed under their husbands, that was just part of law in the united states. In a lot of ways, this feels
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