Peggy Wallace Kennedy's Speech

I found that the most powerful aspect of her speech was the part where she explained how she satisfied Martin Luther King's speech by holding hands with Bernice Kennedy in the same place that George Wallace was standing and not letting people who were not white in. This irony shows that what Martin Luther King wanted was fulfilled with flying colors. While racist is still alive, there is significant improvement from what it once was. I also found it quite powerful that her father became the governor just so he could have power, and that he said he was racist in order to gain that power. It says that power can really corrupt a person and skew people's ideals. It was nice to get a speech from someone who had more of a first hand experience with racism and government in Alabama, rather than someone who has only read about it. The personal stories about the topic definitely added to the feeling and the emotion of the speech.