School Desegregation Set Back Black College Football


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Of course other sports can be added to the list as well.

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School Desegregation Set Back Black College Football
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
17 Dec 2019

Black colleges once out-performed white schools in producing better football players – until desegregation happened, said Derrick White, professor of history at the University of Kentucky and author of “Blood, Sweat and Tears: Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football.” School desegregation “disrupted the recruiting network that had fueled Black college football,” said White, whose book explores the “community impact as well as cultural and political impact” of desegregation.
 
FAMU Professor Plans Documentary On Legendary Football Coach Jake Gaither
By Lynn Hatter • Dec 2, 2019

November 29th marked 50 years since the first time a black school and white school in the south faced off on the football field. The matchup featured Florida A&M University and the University of Tampa. Now, a documentary about the life of FAMU's legendary football coach Jake Gaither is in the works.

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Multiple schools, including Florida State University and the University of Florida, rejected the offer to play FAMU. Gaither however, would find a like mind in University of Tampa's coach Fran Curie.

“As I interviewed coach Curcie—Fran Curci who was the the University of Tampa coach, he said, ‘no one wanted to play them because no one wanted to take the chance of being beat.'" McLeod explained.

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I wish I had the articles in the AJC on the 20th anniversary in 1987 of when Georgia high school sports were integrated. It covered how football on all levels changed the south and had an article when HBCUs had the best Black players.

Anyway, the money made by the big schools on Black talent cannot be ignored. In the ESPN series on the 150th anniversary of college football, William Rhoden, a former Morgan State player in the 1960s, mentioned that.

Gentrification will have a bigger effect, and we are seeing it now. I need to take a self guided tour of Atlanta to see more of the changes. In 1990 the city was 67% Black. It is now down to 53-54% Black, and Black politicians in my opinion played a part in that.

Anyway, the Carter Center was opened near Little Five Points. The demographics of the surrounding area did not change much if at all for years. Now, just south of the tracks where Seaboard Avenue in Fulton County and Caroline Street in Dekalb meets Moreland Avenue (where the Civil War Battle of Atlanta or Fulton-Dekalb County was fought), the changes are eye opening (link1, link2). Where Atlanta Gas Light was located, there are Kroger, Office Depot, Five Guys, Barnes and Noble, T-Mobile, Lowes, Starbucks, UPS and other businesses.

Yes, the residents south of the tracks especially in Reynoldstown (Fulton) and Edgewood (Dekalb) were Black. Many in Candler Park in Dekalb were Black too. Inman Park was mostly White.
 



That video I posted sounds just like some of us on here. For example, we need more money to compete with those other folks. If we had more money, we'll be just fine. Nothing about understanding the game to its fullest. I got into a discussion with one of my little cousins who is about to graduate college in Business Finance. He actually tried to compare the wealth of rap artist Future to individuals that have control of commodities and natural resources. One thing we did agree on is that Future does have mind control over a bunch of dummies. One good thing, he's not graduating from an HBCU.
 
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