Leland Mitchell, Who Defied Racism on the Basketball Court, Dies at 72
Posted Jul 12, 2013
In 1963, Leland Mitchell and his Mississippi State teammates had to sneak out of their state to compete in the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament. Gov. Ross Barnett and other hard-core segregationists were worried that their all-white team might compete against blacks, a step the governor said he feared “might lead to integration across the land.”
(New York Times)
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