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Can a brush with death change politicians? It did for notorious Alabama segregationist George Wallace

  • Written by Donald Nieman, Professor of History and Provost Emeritus, Binghamton University, State University of New York
imageFormer Alabama governor and presidential candidate George Wallace speaks to reporters in Detroit on Oct. 29, 1968. AP Photo/Preston Stroup

Donald Trump’s narrow escape from an assassin’s bullet led me – a historian who has written about political polarization and the Civil Rights Movement – to think back to another...

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