Black basketball pioneers - Texas Western
How an all-black college team overturned racist assumptions about basketball in the USA.
In 1966, an all-black team went head-to-head with an all-white team for the National College Basketball championship - one of the biggest prizes in American sport. To much surprise, the African-Americans of Texas Western College defeated the University of Kentucky, then the number one team in the country. The game is now regarded as breaking the colour barrier in US basketball. In 2016 Nija Dalal-Small spoke to Nevil Shed, one of that groundbreaking Texas Western team. The programme is a Sparklab Production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service.
PHOTO: Texas Western celebrate their victory in 1966 (Getty Images)
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