Video from Apex Library BHM event: Tar Heel state’s pivotal role advancing college football integration
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— Click here for book review and purchase link: THE RIGHT THING TO DO, The True Pioneers of College Football Integration in the 1960s and here for a purchase link to RAYE OF LIGHT, Jimmy Raye, Duffy Daugherty, the Integration of College Football and the 1965-66 Michigan State Spartans.
APEX EVA PERRY REGIONAL LIBRARY
Thanks to Quin Matthis, a junior enrolled in Enloe High’s acclaimed TV/Audio program for recording the library discussion. Charlie Young, one the speakers, is an acclaimed Enloe alumnus.
Click here for video: Milestone Minutes Episode 18
— Introductions by Tom Shanahan. 5:00, on 1964 college football integration tipping points from North Carolina schools and individuals. 8:45, Quote on history from Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough. 10:00, Quote from Rev. Jesse Jackson on Michigan State leadership and Jimmy Raye.
— 12:58, Jimmy Raye on his journey from Fayetteville to Michigan State; 18:00, on Michigan State as first fully integrated team to play in the South against North Carolina in 1964; 20:55, on Dick Proebstle’s QB coaching; 22:00, on Jimmy’s first restaurant breakfast away from Jim Crow South at Kellogg Center; 23:30, climbing the depth chart; 26:00, 1966 Rose Bowl; 31:20, Game of the Century.
— 32:19 Michigan State lining up against Notre Dame in the Game of the Century with 20 Black players, 11 Black starters, two Black team captains, College Football Hall of Famers George Webster and Clinton Jones, and Jimmy Raye as the South’s first Black QB to win a national title compared to Notre Dame roster with one Black player, Alan Page. — 32:55, explaining Duffy Daugherty ignored quota limitations on Black athletes followed by other schools. — 33:40, on North Carolina coach Jim Tatum (1956-58) and scheduling the 1962, 1963, 1964 MSU-UNC games.
— 36:30, Gary Dilley, Michigan State 1964 Olympic swimming silver medalist of Huntington, Indiana, on MSU’s integrated housing and Gene Washington of segregated Houston as his roommate; 38:25, on MSU President John Hannah; 39:30, on College Football Hall of Famer and all-time character Bubba Smith; 42:50, on Dilley’s football-swimming workout bet with Bubba Smith.
— 44:35, more on Jim Tatum’s leadership. — 45:50, Bear Bryant/1970 USC-Alabama game fairytale at expense of the true 1960s pioneers. — 46:25, Award-winning historian Ken Burns on history tied into a nice bubble versus telling a longer, factual story.
— 47:15, Tom on Bob Grant; 48:00, Jimmy Raye on Bob Grant.
— 51:00, Charlie Young on NC State experience; 55:40 on Clyde Chesney’s influence; 58:00 on playing for Lou Holtz; 59:20 on racial experiences in Texas while playing for the Dallas Cowboys; 1:01:30 Charlie on the Four Stallions with Willie Burden, Roland Hooks and Stan Fritts.
— 1:04:30 Tom on the second generation as a result of opportunities.
— 1:05:00 Tracy Pasteur, an executive as Cisco in Raleigh, on her father Ernie Pasteur, who rode Duffy’s Underground Railroad to Michigan State from Beaufort, N.C.
— 1:09:00 Jimmy Raye on the induction of the 1965 and 1966 Michigan State national championship teams into the Michigan State Hall of Fame with an assist from MSU President Kevin Guskiewicz.
— Closing quotes with quotes from Jimmy Raye, Dennis Thomas, Gene Smith, David Halberstam and Lane Demas.
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This is video when Charlie spoke at the Raleigh Sports Club, in 2023. We covered the same ground in this video: Raleigh Sports Club luncheon video: Honoring Earle Edwards’ legacy and connection to Duffy Daugherty – Tom Shanahan Report
PHOTO: Charlie Young, Jimmy Raye, Tom Shanahan and Gary Dilley.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
The Tar Heel state’s Football Integration Game Changers
Panel: Author Tom Shanahan, NC State’s Charley Young and Olympic silver medalist Gary Dilley.
We’ll discuss largely untold stories of leadership from North Carolinians.
The event includes Q & A and book signing afterward.
— Author Tom Shanahan, whose books focus on college football integration’s untold stories, will discuss milestones in the Tar Heel state. He is an award-winning sportswriter who lives in Morrisville. He frequently writes for the News & Observer. Joining the panel discussion are Charley Young and Gary Dilley.
— NC State’s Charley Young was one of the Wolfpack’s first two Black scholarship football players along with the late Willie Burden. They were teammates at Enloe High when NC State Hall of fame coach Earle Edwards recruited them. Edwards was an assistant at Michigan State alongside Duffy Daugherty, whose 1960s teams nationally led college football integration.
Chapter 10 in THE RIGHT THING TO DO covers Earle Edwards, Marcus Martin, Clyde Chesney, Willie Burden Sr. and Charley Young.
More on Charley: Raleigh Sports Club luncheon video: Honoring Earle Edwards’ legacy and connection to Duffy Daugherty – Tom Shanahan Report
— Olympic medalist Gary Dilley, a 1964 Olympic swimming silver medalist, is a retired Cary dentist who also served as part-time UNC assistant swim coach. Dilley comments on Michigan State’s 1964 football team as the first fully integrated roster to play in the South against North Carolina on September 26 at Kenan Stadium. College Football Hall of Famers Clint Jones and Gene Washington, the latter Dilley’s roommate at Wonders Hall, both scored touchdowns.
More on Gary: The Wonders of Michigan State’s expanded worlds under President John Hannah’s leadership – Tom Shanahan Report
— Michigan State’s Jimmy Raye was the South’s first Black quarterback to win a national title when he left segregated Fayetteville aboard Duffy Daugherty’s Underground Railroad. Daugherty also launched Raye’s career at Michigan State. Raye was the second coordinator in the NFL when the Los Angeles Rams named him their offensive coordinator, in 1983. In 2022, the Pro Football Hall of Fame named Raye to its inaugural class of NFL Awards of Excellence recipients.
More on Jimmy: Michigan State trailblazer Jimmy Raye enters North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame – Tom Shanahan Report
— We’ll also discuss North Carolina Sports Hall of Famers such as Michigan State’s Jimmy Raye and Minnesota’s Bobby Bell and Carl Eller who were forced to leave the state during Jim Crow to find opportunity. Raye of Fayetteville was the South’s first Black quarterback to win a national title and honored by the Pro Football Hall of Fame for his pioneering coaching career with the inaugural NFL Awards of Excellence. Bell and Eller are College and Pro Football Hall of Famers. We’ll also discuss Wake Forest trailblazers Bob Grant and Butch Henry.
Chapter 19 in THE RIGHT THING TO DO covers Bob Grant, Butch Henry and Bill Tate.
Wake Forest’s Bob Grant: College football lore continues to fail Wake Forest’s Bob Grant and his trailblazing tale – Tom Shanahan Report
More on the 1964 Michigan State-North Carolina game: Clint Jones and his 1964 touchdown at North Carolina that history ignored – Tom Shanahan Report
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— Watch a three-minute video to learn about our documentary at the fundraising stage, GAME CHANGERS OF THE CENTURY, and the Investment Deck.
— Documentary synopsis: Duffy documentary snynopsis.pdf – Google Drive
— I will debate anybody, anytime, anywhere Duffy Daugherty led college football integration
— My FWAA first-place story on the 1962 Rose Bowl and segregation
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I’ll put my facts on the true pioneers of college football integration versus Bear Bryant fairytales against anybody, anytime, anywhere. Watch here.
Click here for my story on the 1962 Rose Bowl and Segregation and Alabama.
— Tom Shanahan is an award-winning sportswriter with two books on college football integration, “RAYE OF LIGHT, Jimmy Raye, Duffy Daugherty, the Integration of College Football and the 1965-66 Michigan State Spartans,” and “THE RIGHT THING TO DO, The True Pioneers of College Football Integration in the 1960s.” They are the most accurate accounts of college football integration in the 1950s and 1960s. They also debunk myths about the 1970 USC-Alabama game. The false narrative co-opted the stories of the true pioneers who stood up to Jim Crow and the KKK.
— Two children’s books also explain Michigan State College Football Hall of Fame coach Duffy Daugherty’s impact on integration through the Underground Railroad and the Hawaiian Pipeline: “DUFFY’S COLLEGE FOOTBALL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD” and “HOW DUFFY PUT HAWAII ON AMERICA’S FOOTBALL MAP.”
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PURCHASE LINKS, non-fiction books
— RAYE OF LIGHT, August Publications or on Amazon.
— THE RIGHT THING TO DO, August Publications or on Amazon.
PURCHASE LINKS, children’s books
— DUFFY’S COLLEGE FOOTBALL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, Order from Barnes and Noble here and Amazon here.
— HOW DUFFY PUT HAWAII ON AMERICA’S FOOTBALL MAP, coming soon on Barnes and Noble and Amazon.
