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Author Chansky, Art, author.

Title Game changers : Dean Smith, Charlie Scott, and the era that transformed a southern college town / Art Chansky
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 198 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) illustrations
Contents Prologue. Careful Crusaders -- The Key Players -- The Truth about Chapel Hill -- Brave New World -- The Right Timing -- Together Alone -- Crosswinds of Change -- The Push and the Pull -- Endings and Beginnings -- Epilogue. The Test of Yesterday
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-179) and index
Notes Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed July 28, 2021)
Subject Scott, Charlie, 1948-
Smith, Dean, 1931-2015.
SUBJECT Scott, Charlie, 1948-
Smith, Dean, 1931-2015
Scott, Charlie, 1948- fast
Smith, Dean, 1931-2015 fast
Subject North Carolina Tar Heels (Basketball team) -- History
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -- Basketball -- History
SUBJECT North Carolina Tar Heels (Basketball team) fast
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill fast
Subject Racism in sports -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- History
African Americans -- Civil rights -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- History -- 20th century
Basketball -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- History
Basketball coaches -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
African Americans -- Civil rights
Basketball
Basketball coaches
Racism in sports
North Carolina -- Chapel Hill
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016023981
ISBN 9781469630403
1469630400
9781469630397
1469630397