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'The Secret Game': Breaking Racial Barriers Through Basketball

Home Ground Radio with Brian Kahn
Home Ground Radio with Brian Kahn

Imagine there are two hot basketball teams in the same town, one the best in the nation. Their colleges are just across town from each other so a showdown is a must. Except for one thing — one team is white, the other black, and in 1944 North Carolina, whites and blacks are forbidden to compete. What happens next tells a lot about the nation we were, and the nation we are. Scott Ellsworth has written a book about it, “The Secret Game.” Scott is our guest today on “Home Ground Radio".

(Broadcast: "Home Ground Radio", 11/22/15. Listen on the radio or online, Sundays at 11:10 a.m., or via podcast.)

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