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Willie Cooper, first black player on UNC's freshman team, remembers Dean Smith


In 1964 gave Willie Cooper a long-shot chance to be the first black student to play varsity basketball at an ACC school in North Carolina. Cooper, now 69, played freshman basketball at North Carolina and dealt with many of the indignities black athletes faced in the 1960s. (Charlotte Observer)

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