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Game Changers - Dean Smith, Charlie Scott, and the Era That Transformed a Southern College Town (Paperback)
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Game Changers - Dean Smith, Charlie Scott, and the Era That Transformed a Southern College Town (Paperback)
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Among many legendary episodes from the life and career of men's
basketball coach Dean Smith, few loom as large as his recruitment
of Charlie Scott, the first African American scholarship athlete at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Drawn together by
college basketball in a time of momentous change, Smith and Scott
helped transform a university, a community, and the racial
landscape of sports in the South. But there is much more to this
story than is commonly told. In Game Changers, Art Chansky reveals
an intense saga of race, college sport, and small-town politics. At
the center were two young men, Scott and Smith, both destined for
greatness but struggling through challenges on and off the court,
among them the storms of civil rights protest and the painfully
slow integration of a Chapel Hill far less progressive than its
reputation today might suggest. Drawing on extensive personal
interviews and a variety of other sources, Chansky takes readers
beyond the basketball court to highlight the community that
supported Smith and Scott during these demanding years, from
assistant basketball coach John Lotz to influential pastor the
Reverend Robert Seymour to pioneering African American mayor Howard
Lee. Dispelling many myths that surround this period, Chansky
nevertheless offers an ultimately triumphant portrait of a
student-athlete and coach who ensured the University of North
Carolina would never be the same.
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