Audio: Art Chansky - "Game Changers" tells the story of UNC basketball and the Civil Rights Movement
Posted Dec 28, 2016
Art Chansky, veteran sportswriter and author of several books on UNC basketball, joins the Sports Shop crew to discuss his new book "Game Changers." The book recalls how the late UNC head coach Dean Smith recruited the university's first ever African-American scholarship athlete Charlie Scott and the impact it had on Chapel Hill during the Civil Rights Movement.
(WRAL Sports Fan)
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