When people look back on [GetYear], the one thing that will stick out most of all is an image. A picture snapped by a nearly forgotten United Press photographer in Atlanta, Georgia. The story behind that picture may just be one of the most remarkable to come out of the era, just as amazing as the picture itself.\n\n
For weeks, protests, rallies and demonstrations across the United States were undertaken as news of President Barry Goldwater’s dramatic and draconian cuts to the federal welfare and Social Security program was revealed to the public. It finally culminated in a massive, nationwide “March Against Welfare Cuts” that filled every city, from the metropolises of New York and Los Angeles, to the smaller cities like Boise and Akron, and everywhere in between.\n\n
The leaders of the strikes were, as to be expected, from the National Progressive Party, the opposition. But it was the totality of the NPP that was rallying against these measures. Of course, the L-NPP would be expected to come out against the “capitalist gravedigger,” as well as Micheal Harrington’s C-NPP, who spoke in ten cities in ten days against the harm for the workers and poor that struggled to survive, and would soon be thrust into the maw of unrepentant laissez-faire capitalism. The supporters of Yockey’s branch of the NPP were also out in force, though they were more focused on the “clearly Jewish conspiracy” of Goldwater rather than particular care for those that would be impacted.\n\n
But even the FR-NPP, notably segregationist and conservative, were standing up against Goldwater’s proposals, as their Southern supporters would be drastically affected by the cuts to farm subsidies, health programs and old-age assistance.\n\n
Hence the picture, taken in Atlanta on that fine day: the sight of FR-NPP leader and avowed segregationist George Wallace, standing arm in arm with African-American C-NPP supporters, together holding a banner saying: “Goldwater = Gold for the Rich, Water for the Poor.”