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    Integrating Texas athletics : the forgotten story of the first black basketball players

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    2011-05
    Author
    Abston, Grant David
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    During a period in American history when the racial landscape was rapidly changing, racial advances in collegiate athletics were taking place across the South in the 1950s and 1960s. At the University of Texas, that process proved harder to achieve than many expected as it would take nearly two decades to integrate athletics following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that admitted blacks to the university in 1950. Caught in the middle of the decade-long struggle, as blacks finally began integrating various UT athletic teams, was a group of black basketball players whose story reflects the racial progress made not just in Austin, but also across the United States.
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    Journalism
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    Texas
    Athletics
    Basketball
    University of Texas at Austin
    Sports and race
    Black athletes
    College athletics
    Racial integration
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    http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3209
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