Video: UNC Legend Charlie Scott on Breaking Down Racial Barriers
Posted Jan 19, 2015
On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we look back at a man who helped desegregate sports in the South, Charlie Scott. Scott became UNC's first African-American scholar-athlete when he was signed by Dean Smith in 1966. In this ACC Now, Scott discusses his personal experience wearing the Tar Heel blue, what life was like for him in the South in the 1960s and more.
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