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The 19 of Greene narrates Tony Barnhart’s experience with
integration in small-town Georgia as a member of Greene County’s
first integrated football team. The longtime sportswriter, also
known as Mr. College Football, details the Tigers’ surprisingly
successful season, the enduring relationships he formed with his
teammates, and the difficulties of school sports integration. As he
witnessed the specific role that football played in the "success"
of integration at Greene, his foundational experiences continue to
help Barnhart navigate the persistent blight of racism more
generally. The early chapters set the stage for Greene County’s
1970 football season by outlining the roots of integration in the
South beginning with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and how it
and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 eventually led to Georgia, and
Greene County in particular, being integrated in the classroom and
on the athletic field. Barnhart discusses how the three high
schools in Greene County—Greensboro, Union Point, and
Corry—eventually became one by the fall of 1970. In addition, he
outlines the rollout of integration of the Greene County school
district population in 1965–66 and how it eventually led to
athletics being integrated in the fall of 1970. Returning to each
of the players, as well as the coaches, teachers, and
administrators who contributed to that 1970 season, Barnhart
interviews his old contacts to revisit this important time in all
their lives. Their stories make plain that football merely served
as the backdrop for the sociological interactions and events taking
place in Greene County, Georgia, the South, and the United States
at the end of the civil rights era and how change would be as
rewarding as it was difficult.
Find Your Purpose Driven Life of Joy, Passion and SuccessWhen
Angela Duckworth wrote her best-selling book Grit: The Power of
Passion and Perseverance she could have been describing Sam Bracken
who is the embodiment of living a life of grit and grace. Learn
self-empowerment. In GUTS, Bracken explains why we need to dig deep
and do soul searching to see what lights our fire within. Bracken's
backstory would make Dr. Phil turn tail and run. His childhood and
upbringing are unimaginably tough with years of abuse, even to the
point where a relative set him on fire. What didn't kill Sam
Bracken made him stronger. Now he is on a mission to bring
self-empowerment to others. Grit and grace. When we say something
takes guts, we usually mean it takes courage to do it. It takes
guts to go skydiving or to run a marathon or to try out for the
school play. We call it luck or stamina or intestinal fortitude in
conquering the hard, albeit exciting, things in life. Look back at
the great personalities who made a difference in history. What did
they all have in common? Determination and tenacity. In short,
GUTS! They might have had talent too, but without guts they would
have gone nowhere. Science now tells us that lots of talented
individuals produce great stuff, but very few produce a lot of
great stuff and even fewer produce a lot of great stuff over a long
career. What do these few highly productive people have in common?
Grit and grace and a large helping of self-belief. Purpose driven
life. GUTS is about actually getting there. You'll have to push
past failure again and again. And it is also about beating the odds
no matter how high they are stacked against you. To be a true
leader, you have to start with yourself. Are you ready to do some
soul searching and learn the secrets to guts, self-empowerment, and
a purpose driven life? If you have read Girl on Fire, Attitudes of
Gratitude, or Sam Bracken's other book My Orange Duffel Bag, you
will want to read GUTS.
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