It was just a single line in a speech given 50 years ago today. But that one phrase, "segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever," is remembered as one of the most vehement rallying ...

And all this time, we thought George Wallace was being defiant at the schoolhouse door. Perhaps he was simply engaging in prophesy. As another Southerner, William Faulkner, famously said, "The past is ...