The UNC Business School Student Who Almost Integrated ACC Basketball

Posted Feb 27, 2017
Willie Cooper starred on the basketball team at Frederick Douglass High, where the 6-foot-2 forward’s defensive abilities attracted the attention of future Hall of Fame head coach Dean Smith, who at that time was struggling with a losing program at UNC. "One day, at one of the games, some white guys showed up at my high school with a Super 8 movie camera," Cooper says. (WBUR)

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