tonofun
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3 months, 4 weeks agotonofun's comment on:
SMU alumnus Jerry LeVias features in HBO show Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football
I watched the documentary and was pleased that someone had finally been able to tell the story. Martin Luther King never did what these young men accomplished. When I was a senior in high school in Dallas, I was being recruited by Haden Fry. He arranged for me to get into the stadium to see their football games in 1966-67. At first I went out to see the team, but after I saw Jerry Levias, I went back again and again to see him. He doesn't probably remember me coming by his dorm room to meet him and shake his hand, and he doesn't know how much I admired him then and now. We lived in a white flight world back then and without people like Jerry Levias, it might have never ended.



T. Boone Pickens dedicates his namesake YMCA, talks at UT-Dallas
..if "the road" is thirty minutes of doing 70mph down US-75.