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wLeNo TIL that months after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Fred Rodgers and Francois Clemmons worked together to show the word how to integrate swimming pools by soaking their feet in the pool together.
VM0K4 TIL that Rollen Stewart, the “John 3:16 guy” who would wear rainbow wigs and attend numerous sporting events while holding up religious signs in view of television cameras, is currently serving multiple life-sentences in California.
oBP1L TIL- In 1968, During the Height of the Civil Rights Struggle in the U.S., Mr. Rogers Shared a Wading Pool with the Police Officer on His Show, a Black Man, and Later Shared a Towell and Dried His Feet For Him a Revolutionary Act at the Time