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| George Wallace standing in the school house door at University of Alabama |
Peggy Wallace Kennedy's speech was fairly interesting with the most memorable tidbits being how she never got an answer on why her parents wanted segregation, or how peer pressure kept her from welcoming the first black student integrated into her high school. However I feel like she definitely could/should have with little backlash. It was intriguing how she talked about how her father made her want to be a better person, I wanted to hear her speak on how the view of her father changed after he recanted his statements about racism and how her opinion of him changed before and after, or if she thought her father was still racist. The most outstanding moment from her, I thought, was how she talked about fulfilling MLK's dream by holding hands with Bernice King, MLK's daughter.
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