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How a Failed Assassination Attempt Pushed George Wallace to Reconsider His Segregationist Views | History | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

After his shooting, a hospitalized Wallace holds up a newspaper touting his victories in the Maryland and Michigan Democratic presidential primaries. Bettman via Getty Images On May 15, 1972, the man Martin Luther King Jr. once called the “most dangerous racist in America” stepped up to the podium at a suburban Washington, D.C. shopping center. […]

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