The Game Changers
Abner Haynes, Leon King, and the Fall of Major College Football's Color Barrier in Texas
The accepted narrative in football-crazy Texas is that racial integral came to the state's national sport” in the mid-1960s, generally associated with Jerry LeVias' celebrated arrival at SMU in Dallas. But the landmark achievement actually took place quietly almost a decade earlier only about an hour north of Dallas. In the town of Denton, two black football players from Dallas' segregated public school system boldly walked on to play for what was then called North Texas State College-known today as the University of North Texas. Abner Haynes and Leon King didn't know what to expect, and neither their dozen or so teammates on North Texas' fre…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61321-942-3
- EAN: 9781613219423
- Produktnummer: 31909475
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'549 KB
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Jeff Miller has been a sports journalist for more than forty years. He has worked for the Dallas Morning News, CBSSports.com and ESPN.com. Miller is the author of six books, including The Game Changers, which detailed the racial integration of major college football in Texas. He lives with his wife, Frances, in DeSoto, Texas. They have four children and one grandchild.
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