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malone s admission, but there was general henry graham who complied with president kennedy s order to federalize the troops and ordered governor wallace to stem aside. it was not an easy decision for general graham to make. there were things he stood to lose. he could have refused that. if he had done so, it would have led to even more civil unrest and probably a greater scale of violence. but he complied then. he complied with supervising the troops that provided protection for the freedom riders and for those who participated in the selma to montgomery march in 1964. that is the tradition i had hoped our legislators had leaned into. it s disappointing they didn t, but we have that tradition as advocates and as alabamans that we will continue to lean into to push our state in the right

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