Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nashville, Tenn...
Into the Dust Bowl. Oscar Robertson, of course, learned his basketball in Indiana. Born on a farm near Charlotte, Tenn., Oscar was three when his family moved to Indianapolis, where his father landed a job in the city sanitation department. The Robertsons settled precariously in a grim, four-room, tarpaper-roofed house in the black ghetto on the west side of town. Just two blocks away was an out door basketball court known as the "dust bowl." In the dust bowl Oscar Robertson discovered basketball...
...Atlanta, Ga., Nashville, Tenn., Charlotte, Greensboro and High Point, N.C., the quiet, carefully mannered Negro students queued up at the white-only box offices of movie houses. One after another they requested tickets; as each was refused he went to the end of the line to start over. In Hampton, Va., a group of students bought tickets to a segregated theater and sat in the white-only seats. Fifteen were arrested...
...starting backcourt pair is captain Sid Davis from Clinton, Tenn., and Barry Dym, an all-around athlete from Valley Stream...
...latest eyesore on the South's unhappy racial battlefield is a tent town outside Somerville, in Fayette County, Tenn...