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Celebrating Black History: First Black UofL basketball players share how they broke the color barrier
But in 1962, Wade Houston, Eddie Whitehead and Sam Smith became the first Black basketball players to don the Cardinals’ uniform. Smith sadly passed in 2022, but Whitehead and Houston talk about ...
Raleigh News & Observer5d
Bigger than basketball: Duke, filmmakers honor CB Claiborne, school’s first Black player
At one point early in a short documentary detailing his journey from his segregated high school in Danville, Virginia, to becoming Duke’s first Black basketball player in the mid-1960s ...
Cardinal News5d
New documentary tells the story of Duke’s first Black basketball player, who hailed from Danville
Javier Wallace, a postdoctoral associate at Duke University, was digging through the school’s archives while doing research ...