Read more about the article Video from Apex Library BHM event: Tar Heel state’s pivotal role advancing college football integration

Video from Apex Library BHM event: Tar Heel state’s pivotal role advancing college football integration

Visit my homepage: TomShanahan.Report — 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…

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Read more about the article The Wonders of Michigan State’s expanded worlds under President John Hannah’s leadership

The Wonders of Michigan State’s expanded worlds under President John Hannah’s leadership

PHOTO: Wonders Hall opened in 1963 as John Hannah's example of a progressive campus before the 1964 and 1965 Civil Rights Acts were signed. Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report By TOM SHANAHAN Gene Washington escaped the segregated South 60 years ago, boarding Michigan State’s Underground Railroad from La Porte, Texas. His life-altering journey as a freshman football recruit for preseason practice was prior to September classes. The time frame, coincidentally, matched 250,000 Americans traveling to the nation’s capital…

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