Guest Commentary
John Thompson and the Georgetown Hoyas of the 1980’s: The Significance for College Sports, African-Americans and Washington, D.C
Guest Commentator
By the mid-1980s, teams starting three or more black players were not unusual. The profits and prestige of winning were forcing compromises in past discriminatory practices. But the proliferation of black players was not matched with the hiring of black coaches.
For a quarter of a century from the 1947-48 to the 1971-72 seasons, Georgetown was an abysmal failure in basketball, and the pace of integration of…
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