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Most of the time, the dapper Ellison got along with blacks and whites. He was the precocious child of doting parents in Oklahoma City. "I'm raising this boy to be a poet," said Ellison's father, a small businessman who named him after Ralph Waldo Emerson and died when the child was three. Ralph's mother worked as a domestic and recruited blacks for the Socialist Party. There was no shortage of role models for Ralph; he attended a grammar school named for Frederick Douglass and won a scholarship to Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. While...
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...Twenty-five years later he was able to part with $140 million, give or take, in exchange for ownership of the Cowboys. Johnson, on the other hand, slid into coaching, where the remuneration was more modest but the skills perfectly suited to his driven personality. After five years at Oklahoma State, he moved to the University of Miami, where he brought home a national championship...
...Jones was looking to assuage Johnson's feelings, he didn't do it by his choice of a replacement. A day after saying goodbye to Johnson, Jones hired Barry Switzer, Johnson's old cross-state rival from Oklahoma University. Switzer, who led Oklahoma to three national championships but left under a cloud of scandal in 1989, has been out of coaching for five years and has never coached in the pros. He is expected to be a more manageable underling for Jones. "Now that the door's open," says Johnson, "he ((Jones)) may become more involved. Switzer will obviously...
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