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The day the Brooklyn Dodgers fielded Major League Baseball’s first majority-black lineup

Walter Alston changed his mind about playing Sandy Amoros, and the rest is history

By Rhiannon Walker

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Joe Gilliam represented much more than ‘Pittsburgh’s Black Quarterback’

Tennessee State product beat out Terry Bradshaw with Steelers to become first African-American to start an opening-day game in the NFL

By Jerry Bembry

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Locker Room Talk: James ‘Shack’ Harris on today’s renaissance of black QBs

These young quarterbacks are now role models for another generation

By William C. Rhoden