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

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Among many legendary 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 African American scholarship athlete at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Drawn together by college basketball in a time of momentous change, Smith and Scott helped grow to be a university, a community, and the racial landscape of sports in the South. But there may be a lot more to this story than is usually told. In Game Changers, Art Chansky reveals an intense saga of race, college sport, and small-town politics. At the center were two young men, Scott and Smith, both destined for greatness but struggling through challenges off and on the court, among them the storms of civil rights protest and the painfully slow integration of a Chapel Hill far less progressive than its reputation as of late might suggest.

Drawing on extensive personal interviews and a number of other sources, Chansky takes readers beyond the basketball court to highlight the community that supported Smith and Scott all the way through these demanding years, from assistant basketball coach John Lotz and influential pastor the Reverend Robert Seymour to pioneering African American mayor Howard Lee. Dispelling many myths that surround this period, Chansky then again offers an in the long run triumphant portrait of a student-athlete and coach who ensured the University of North Carolina would never be the same.

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