Integrating Texas athletics : the forgotten story of the first black basketball players

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dc.contributor.advisorDahlby, Tracyen
dc.contributor.advisorMinutaglio, Billen
dc.contributor.committeeMemberTodd, Janiceen
dc.creatorAbston, Grant Daviden
dc.date.accessioned2011-07-26T21:55:59Zen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-11T22:22:58Z
dc.date.available2011-07-26T21:55:59Zen
dc.date.available2017-05-11T22:22:58Z
dc.date.issued2011-05en
dc.date.submittedMay 2011en
dc.date.updated2011-07-26T21:56:03Zen
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractDuring a period in American history when the racial landscape was rapidly changing, racial advances in collegiate athletics were taking place across the South in the 1950s and 1960s. At the University of Texas, that process proved harder to achieve than many expected as it would take nearly two decades to integrate athletics following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that admitted blacks to the university in 1950. Caught in the middle of the decade-long struggle, as blacks finally began integrating various UT athletic teams, was a group of black basketball players whose story reflects the racial progress made not just in Austin, but also across the United States.en
dc.description.departmentJournalismen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.slug2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3209en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3209en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.subjectTexasen
dc.subjectAthleticsen
dc.subjectBasketballen
dc.subjectUniversity of Texas at Austinen
dc.subjectSports and raceen
dc.subjectBlack athletesen
dc.subjectCollege athleticsen
dc.subjectRacial integrationen
dc.titleIntegrating Texas athletics : the forgotten story of the first black basketball playersen
dc.type.genrethesisen

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