Jerry Falwell's Conversion to Segregation

In the mid-1960s, Jerry Falwell hired his first non-white employee, the Indonesian musician Paul Tan. In 1968, he opened the Thomas Road Baptist Church to black members. And in 1969... So wait, hold on a second. Open the church to black members in 1968. That was somewhere like 64 or 65. He had an epiphany and then it took him three to four years. He still changed his mind. It's not like he got on board segregation when it was still. The civil rights movement hit that point of critical mass. Once the civil rights movements passed its critical point, he's like, oh shit, I guess this is the way things are going