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The College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta, Georgia, kicked off Black History Month with a newly installed exhibit honoring members of the Wyoming Black 14 last week ... We make issues, Black or ...
(AP) — Fifty years after 14 black football ... respectful then." Wyoming had won the Sugar Bowl the year before and was off to a 4-0 start before that day. The now all-white Cowboys went on ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Fifty years isn't long enough to keep the tears from welling up in Melvin Hamilton's eyes, eventually spilling onto his face and rolling down his cheeks. He's usually a ...
It had been nearly 50 years since the University of Wyoming ... the Black 14 would come up, students and faculty felt shame for how the players had been treated. Nostalgia for the white football ...
Laramie author Phil White will discuss his latest book, “Trials and Triumphs: Black Americans at the University of Wyoming,” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday ... from the 1969 dismissal of the Black 14 football ...
BYU on Saturday night will recognize members of the Black 14, a group of former Wyoming players kicked off the team in 1969 for wanting to protest a Latter-day Saints church policy that prohibited ...
another group of Wyoming football players will be recognized. Eight members of what will be forever known as the Black 14 — John Griffin, Guillermo Hysaw, Tony Gibson, Tony McGee, Ron Hill ...