The untold story of Edwin Okoroma, UNC’s first Black varsity athlete

Posted Dec 7, 2023
Traveling up to Charlottesville, Va., to take on the University of Virginia in 1963, Edwin Okoroma and his fellow UNC men’s soccer teammates stopped at a restaurant. They entered the diner, and a woman approached him saying, “We don’t serve Blacks here.” For Black people living in the South during the 1960s, this was not an uncommon experience. (Daily Tar Heel)

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