But importantly, and this really is the important thing, Terry Sanford is legendary for several reasons, but one big one, which is in the early 1960s, he Terry Sanford was the youngest governor that had ever been elected in North Carolina and was the youngest governor in the nation at the time. And he integrated the schools in a Southern state. When George Wallace was rallying the rest of the Southern states against integration, Here was the one governor who was integrating … (21:37–21:54)
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