Dean Smith attempted to integrate high school basketball

Posted Oct 11, 2009
In fall 1949, Topeka High School Trojan player Dean Smith asked principal Buck Weaver to combine the [black and white] teams, but Weaver, who worried about the social interaction at the large dances after the game, declined, a May 2004 Topeka Capital-Journal interview with Smith said. Smith wanted the best possible basketball team, and Weaver wanted to do what the school district and society said was correct, the story said. (Topeka Capital-Journal)

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