Peggy Wallace Kennedy
Stephanie KennedyPeggy Wallace Kennedy is a nationally recognized speaker, lecturer, and writer. Her father, George Wallace and her mother, Lurleen Wallace, were both governors of Alabama. Her most recent work is "The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation." Kennedy has received, among others, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Rosa Parks Legacy Award, the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation Woman of Courage Award, the Brown Foundation Human Rights Award and the MLK Commission Award, City of San Antonio, Texas. Her dedication to racial reconciliation offers hope for change in a divided America.
Book:
The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
Bloomsbury
December 2019
ISBN 9781635573657
304 pages
$28.00, INSTOCK
Buy nowFor readers of White Rage, a memoir about Peggy Wallace Kennedy's struggle with her father George Wallace's legacy of governing by fear and hate.
Peggy Wallace Kennedy, seen as the "symbol of racial reconciliation" (Washington Post), is the daughter of one of America's most virulent segregationists, former governor of Alabama and presidential candidate George Wallace. Wallace was notorious for his hateful rhetoric and his political stunts, such as standing in front of the entrance to the University of Alabama to prevent black students from entering. 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 views, and Peggy had a political awakening after which she dedicated much of her own life to attempting to repair some of the damage he caused.In this powerful new memoir, Peggy looks back on the politics of her youth and attempts to reconcile her adored father with the man who coined the phrase "Segregation now. Segregation tomorrow. Segregation forever."Timely and timeless, The Broken Roadspeaks to change, atonement, activism, and racial reconciliation. More/less
