Peggy Wallace Kennedy Speech Reflection

Today in the Randolph assembly we had a guest speaker named Peggy Wallace Kennedy who brought her story first hand to myself any my peers. She spoke about her father, Governor George Wallace, who was a big part of the civil rights movements that were taking place in Alabama. This was during the time of MLK's legendary speech "I had a dream". She spoke about how she saw things different from her dad as she grew, as he only saw segregation as the answer. I think it was amazing how Mrs. Kennedy then grew up into politics just like her father only to have a completely different view on things. Her child once had asked why the white people did such horrible things to the colored and that was when she realized she had to change things for her child and for the people around her. Overall I enjoyed listening to her speech in assembly because it shed some light on the way things used to be and how everyone can make a difference. A monumental thing was at the end when both their fathers were on other ends Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. King held hands together.