The Game Changers: Abner Haynes, Leon King, and the Fall of Major College Football's Color Barrier in Texas free ebook download.

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Author(s):	Jeff Miller

Date:	2021	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1613219377
Pages:	256	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
Uploader:	maveriks	Upload Date:	7/19/2023 2:18:32 AM

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The accepted narrative in football-crazy Texas is that racial integral came to the states 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 Collegeknown today as the University of North Texas. Abner Haynes and Leon King didnt know what to expect, and neither their dozen or so teammates on North Texas freshman team.

The players arrival came only a few months after North Texas first welcomed a black undergraduate student in February 1956. The school worked its way through both that episode and the integration of its most public facethe football teamwith no fanfare and without the hostility on campus that accompanied similar events at many other colleges and universities across the South. There were, though, tense situations when a racial integrated football team played road games in small, segregated Texas towns. Jeff Miller, a veteran Texas sports journalist, has visited with those who lived through itfrom the mixed welcome that Haynes and King initially received from their white freshman brethren to those same teammates standing with them after the two blacks were denied service at eateries on the road to a squad that grew into a Bowl team.

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