Read more about the article Free for schools: Lessons plans on sports and Civil Rights overlapping through Michigan State’s ground-breaking 1960s football teams

Free for schools: Lessons plans on sports and Civil Rights overlapping through Michigan State’s ground-breaking 1960s football teams

Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report To: Principals, Teachers and Administrators: From Tom Shanahan and Ben Hartnell Re: Teaching how sports and Civil Rights overlap through Michigan State's 1960s teams that led college football integration. I have teamed up with Ben Hartnell, a fellow Michigan State graduate, to provide a model of how teachers can use Michigan State’s 1960s teams that led college football integration as tool to teach the overlap between Civil Rights and sports. Ben is a…

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Read more about the article Westerville school district highlights Zoom call with Jimmy Raye

Westerville school district highlights Zoom call with Jimmy Raye

Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report The Westerville (Ohio) City School District wrote a report in a newsletter on the Michigan State Hall of Famer Jimmy Raye, the South's first Black quarterback to win a national title, answering questions on sports and the Civil Rights movement with Dr. Ben Hartnell's history class. His four classes of primarily freshmen and sophomores assembled in a school auditorium. Michigan State coach Duffy Daugherty's 1960s teams led college football integration with the sport's…

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Read more about the article Q&A with Jimmy Raye and Dr. Ben Hartnell’s history classes

Q&A with Jimmy Raye and Dr. Ben Hartnell’s history classes

Visit my home page, TomShanahan.Report A Q&A was held through a Zoom call with Michigan State Hall of Fame quarterback Jimmy Raye, the South’s first Black quarterback to win a national title and a pioneer Black college and NFL coach, and Dr. Ben Hartnell’s history classes at Westerville North (Ohio) near Columbus. Hartnell, a Michigan State graduate, used the book "Raye of Light, Jimmy Raye, Duffy Daugherty, the 1965-66 Michigan State Spartans and the Integration of College Football"…

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