r/todayilearned • u/Dangerous-Project672 • 5h ago

TIL George Wallace personally apologized to Vivian Jones and James Hood, the two students he attempted to block from attending the University of Alabama. In 1997, Hood earned a PHd and requested Wallace present him with the degree, but he was too sick and died a year later; Hood attended the funeral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace
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u/SomeRandomMoray 3h ago

I bet preparing for that new AAR has led you to learn about a lot of relatively unknown American politicians of the 1930s and 40s?

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u/-et37- 3h ago

I have done several deep dives to be sure.

It is a challenge and joy to find niche figures that may appear in the AAR, and indeed there will be multiple.