Hollywood has given us a look at what racism might have looked like in this country in the late 1950's and early 1960's in the form of a movie; "The Express: the Ernie Davis story". Ernie Davis played football for Syracuse University during the 1959-62 seasons. He was the first black American to win the Heisman Trophy, college football's highest honor. The scenes of games at West Virginia University and University of Texas were nasty. (This may seem like a long time ago to most but I was in high school at the time. For those my age who remember that time and then think about the election of Barack Obama...it must seem like a dream come true.)
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