Game Changers: Dean Smith, Charlie Scott, and the Era That Transformed a Southern College Town Audiobook (Free)

Among many famous 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 BLACK scholarship athlete on the University of NEW YORK at Chapel Hill. Drawn jointly by college basketball in a time of momentous transformation, Smith and Scott helped transform a university or college, a community, and the racial landscaping of sports in the South. But there is much more to this story than is commonly told. In Video game about Game Changers: Dean Smith, Charlie Scott, and the Period That Transformed a Southern College Town Changers, Art Chansky reveals a rigorous saga of race, college sport, and small-town politics. At the guts were two teenagers, Scott and Smith, both destined for greatness but battling through challenges on and off the court, among them the storms of civil privileges protest as well as the painfully slow integration of a Chapel Hill far less progressive than its reputation today might suggest.

Drawing on extensive personal interviews and a number of other places, Chansky takes readers beyond the basketball court to highlight the city that supported Smith and Scott of these challenging years, from assistant basketball coach John Lotz to influential pastor the Reverend Robert Seymour to pioneering African American mayor Howard Lee.