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Across the Line - Tales of the First Black Basketball Players in the ACC and SEC (Paperback, Revised and Updated)
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Across the Line - Tales of the First Black Basketball Players in the ACC and SEC (Paperback, Revised and Updated)
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In the 1960s, college sports required more than athletic prowess
from its African American players. For many pioneering basketball
players on 18 teams in the Atlantic and Southeastern conference,
playing ball meant braving sometimes menacing crowds during the
tumultuous era of civil rights. Perry Wallace feared he would be
shot when he first stepped onto a court in his Vanderbilt uniform.
During one road game, Georgia's Ronnie Hogue fended off a hostile
crowd with a chair. Craig Mobley had to flee the Clemson campus,
along with other black students. C.B. Claiborne couldn't attend the
Duke team banquet when it was held at an all-white country club.
Wendell Hudson's mother cried with heartache when her son decided
to play at the University of Alabama, and Al Heartley locked
himself in a campus dorm at North Carolina State for safety the
night Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. Grounded in the
civil rights struggles on campuses throughout the south, the voices
of players, coaches, opponents and fans reveal the long-neglected
story of race, sports and social history. Barry Jacobs has written
for The New York Times, The Washington Post, People and other
publications. He is the author of several sports books, including
Coach K's Little Blue Book. He lives in Hillsborough, North
Carolina.
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