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...white guys were out there partying with girls on weekends, the blacks sat in their dorm drinking Coke and playing cards." He quit in disgust at the end of his freshman year and secured a scholarship to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, an all-black school in Greensboro. N.C. There he excelled as a football star, an honor student majoring in sociology-economics and student body president?and he moved, almost automatically, into civil rights activism. He had organized a sit-in at his home-town library when he became infuriated to find that he could not even...
Jackson's personal commitment was sealed in the summer of 1963, when he led a demonstration at the Greensboro jail. There some 400 black protesters were crowded into cells designed to confine only half that number. "It was hot. Those blacks were hanging on, suffocating, passing out. I began crying. It threw me into a whole new psychic pattern. It became a commitment for life." He also became adept at a kind of psychological warfare with the dominant whites. He discovered that when black demonstrators broke into the national anthem, puzzled cops stopped and took oft their hats; when blacks...
...When the locals laughed at Harvard's presence in the Greensboro Basketball Classic, it was nothing new. Ivy League basketball, and the Crimson in particular, have long been a source of amusement in any town that knows what real basketball is all about...
...worse at 13th-ranked Jacksonville. but not humiliating. It was close in the consolation round at Greensboro, where Harvard lost by cleven to tough Southern Illinois. And it was encouraging at DePaul, where the Crimson upended a DePaul quintet that had won seven-of-nine games...
...First Negro student sit-ins at Greensboro, N.C., lunch counters...