Ce temps nazis ont défilé à “Gardez Redskins Blanc”

Actuellement, Washington, Équipe de football pro DC, la [Redacted], has the distinction of being the only team in the NFL whose name is a racial slur. Un peu plus de 50 il ya des années, il avait une autre distinction malheureux: Il était le dernier restant équipe tout en blanc dans la ligue.

The struggle to integrate Washington’s football team is recounted in Thomas G. Smith’s 2012 livre, Showdown: JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins. As Smith tells it, the showdown began in 1961, when John F. Kennedy’s interior secretary, Stewart Udall, who’d committed to ending segregation anywhere in his sphere of influence, declared his intent to break pro football’s last color bar. Udall later recalled, “I considered it outrageous that the Redskins were the last team in the NFL to have a lily-white policy.”

LIRE LA SUITE: MotherJones.com

M.. Dick Gregory will be in Minneapolis protesting the Washington football team’s name this Sunday November 2nd.