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Peggy Wallace Kennedy - The Broken Road 2019

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Peggy Wallace Kennedy - The Broken Road 2019
Peggy Wallace Kennedy - The Broken Road 2019
epub | 13.77 MB | English | Author :Peggy Wallace Kennedy | 2019 | Bloomsbury Publishing



Book Description :

From the daughter of one of America's most virulent segregationists, a memoir that reckons with her father George Wallace's legacy of hate-and illuminates her journey towards redemption.

Peggy Wallace Kennedy has been widely hailed as the "symbol of racial reconciliation" (Washington Post). In the summer of 1963, though, she was just a young girl watching her father stand in a schoolhouse door as he tried to block two African-American students from entering the University of Alabama. This man, former governor of Alabama and presidential candidate George Wallace, was notorious for his hateful rhetoric and his political stunts. But he was also a larger-than-life father to young Peggy, who was taught to smile, sit straight, and not speak up as her father took to the political stage. At the end of his life, Wallace came to renounce his vie, although he could never attempt to fully repair the damage he caused. But Peggy, after her own political...

Category : | Discrimination & Racism, African-American & Black Biographies, Historical U.S. Biographies


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