“… I couldn’t help but think of how many people had helped me along the way. One of those people I wanted to personally thank for opening doors was Jimmy Raye. This book tells how some of those doors got pushed open. I’m sure you will enjoy reading about the journey!”
– Pro football Hall of Fame Coach, TONY DUNGY
PHOTO: Clifton Roaf, the first passenger on Michigan State coach Duffy Daugherty’s Underground Railroad, introduced his son Willie Roaf at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Black History Month Twitter posts on Duffy Daugherty’s Michigan State Underground Railroad and its influence on the rest of of college
GRAPHIC (6th Block Creative): Quarterback Jimmy Raye (16), head coach Duffy Daugherty and co-captain Clinton Jones (26). Episode 1: Tom Shanahan reading from Raye of Light at the 2019 National Media Sports Association Book Festival in Winston-Salem, N.C. *** Underground Railroad Minutes are videos from Tom Shanahan discussing the historical
GRAPHIC (6th Block Creative). Until the first podcast is posted, enjoyed this video narrated by Tony Dungy that was played at Jimmy Raye’s Michigan State Hall of Fame induction. Dungy also wrote the Foreword to “Raye of Light: Jimmy Raye, Duffy Daugherty, the 1965-66 Michigan State Spartans and the integration
— “History writes people out of the story. It’s our job to write them back in.” — David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize winner and biographer By TOM SHANAHAN Here are 44 facts – one for every Underground Railroad passenger Michigan State coach Duffy Daugherty recruited from the segregated South between 1959
