Talk:Alabama Army National Guard

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Stub Created -- Intended for broader multi-state use[edit]

Created this stub article to serve as a first-pass 'template' for the various state Army National Guard units. The page has only a little Alabama-specific information at present.

I know Wikipedia is a rapidly evolving repository of information, but if possible, it would be good to develop the generality of the stub (the stuff that would work for many states) a bit further for a few days/weeks before we begin to add a whole lot of detail about the Alabama unit specifically. Mvialt 12:15, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

History Section Needs Work[edit]

The history section of this article is in woeful need of expansion. The Alabama National Guard has a long and extremely well-documented and disgusting history of working--sometimes with the KKK--to enforce segregation and other racist policies--including violence and the threat of violence--against African-Americans in Alabama.

George Wallace tried to use the Alabama Guard, after all, to enforce segregation and other racist policies. President Kennedy was then compelled to nationalize the Alabama Guard. All of this is well-known.

The Klan and the Guard were also involved in Wallace's smear campaign against election rival Albert Brewer in 1970--one of the absolutely dirtiest campaigns in U.S. electoral history, which is really saying something. This is all very well documented as well--one excellent source, which I remember reading back in the '70s, is Phillip Crass's book about Wallace.

Many of the officer corps of the Alabama National Guard were out-and-out racists, many of them with dual memberships (or sympathies) with the KKK. There is not a single instance of an Alabama National Guard officer ever resigning his commission as a protest of racist Guard policies or their work with the Klan. The officers were content to be Wallace's storm troopers in his racist war against blacks and the federal government.

Many of these Guard officers were so racist that they actually sent their children to segregation academies. This is also well-documented.

True, it might be embarrassing to those families for these facts to come out. But a truthful history record demands it.

FYI, I am cross-posting this to the Alabama Air National Guard talk page.

Happy editing everyone! Qworty 20:02, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]