Research Catalog

Title

Game changers : Dean Smith, Charlie Scott, and the era that transformed a southern college town / Art Chansky.

Author

Chansky, Art

Publication

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

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Details

Description

xiii, 198 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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"--

Subject

• Smith, Dean, 1931-2015
• Scott, Charlie, 1948-
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > Basketball > History
• North Carolina Tar Heels (Basketball team) > History
• North Carolina Tar Heels (Basketball team)
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 1900-1999
• Basketball coaches > North Carolina > Chapel Hill
• Basketball > North Carolina > Chapel Hill > History
• African Americans > Civil rights > History > North Carolina > Chapel Hill > 20th century
• Racism in sports > North Carolina > Chapel Hill > History
• African Americans > Civil rights
• Basketball
• Basketball coaches
• Racism in sports
• North Carolina > Chapel Hill

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-179) and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9781469630380
• 1469630389
• 9781469630397 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2016023981

OCLC

• ocn945745466
• 945745466
• SCSB-1867841

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library