College football’s integration birther lie spreading to 1972 in new USC project

PHOTO: The national media continues to portray Bear Bryant (L) and John McKay as college football integrations leaders. In reality, they were the 1960s status quo -- Bryant's segregated teams in the South and McKay's teams limited to a half-dozen or so Black players. By TOM SHANAHAN I recently used Twitter to query Pulitzer Prize-winner David Maraniss about his book, “Barack Obama: The Story,” and media coverage of the birther lie. I noted his book thoroughly detailed the…

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