Game changers

By Art Chansky

Subjects: African Americans, North Carolina Tar Heels (Basketball team), Basketball, Basketball coaches, Basketball, history, North carolina, history, African americans, civil rights, University of north carolina, Coaches (athletics), Racism in sports, Civil rights, History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Description: "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"--