1968 United States presidential election in Alabama
The 1968 United States presidential election in Alabama was held on November 5, 1968. In Alabama, voters voted for electors individually instead of as a slate, as in the other 49 states. The 1960s had seen Alabama as the epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement, highlighted by numerous bombings by the Ku Klux Klan in "Bombingham", Birmingham police commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor's use of attack dogs against civil rights protesters, attacks on the Freedom Riders and Selma to Montgomery marchers, and first-term Governor George Wallace's "stand in the door" against the desegregation of the University of Alabama. The state Democratic Party, which had remained closed to African-Americans two decades after Smith v. Allwright outlawed the white primary, had by a five-to-one margin refused to pledge its 1964 electors to incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson, and no attempt was made to challenge this Wallace-sponsored Democratic slate with one loyal to the national party. Despite sponsoring the...
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