Game changers
Subtitle: Dean Smith, Charlie Scott, and the era that transformed a Southern college town
By: Art Chansky
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr; The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781469630380
Subjects: Basketball; Racism in sports; Basketball coaches; Civil rights; North Carolina Tar Heels (Basketball team); African Americans; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; History
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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : Careful crusaders; title: The key players; title: The truth about Chapel Hill; title: Brave new world; title: The right timing; title: Together alone; title: Crosswinds of change; title: The push and the pull; title: Endings and beginnings; title: Epilogue : The test of yesterday.