On May 1, 1948, U.S. Senator Glenn H. Taylor of Idaho—then running as the Progressive Party’s vice-presidential candidate alongside Henry Wallace—was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama. His offense? Attempting to enter an interracial civil rights meeting through a door labeled “For Negroes.” Taylor refused to use the “white-only” entrance and was charged with disorderly conduct. His arrest drew national attention and underscored the deep resistance to racial integration in the Jim Crow South. Taylor’s act of solidarity with the Black community highlighted the intersection of politics and the burgeoning civil rights movement in postwar America.
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