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How Did Coach Boone Handled The Civil Rights Movement

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Coach Boone, the coach for the Titans, and his team played during the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement was a time period in the 60s where black people were fighting for their rights, such as education, the ability to get jobs they want, and to not be discriminated at all anymore. The Civil Rights Movement shows up when several black students were bussed to T.C. Williams and they want to play football with the white students. That is a problem because the white students don’t want to play football any longer since the black people are there, they don’t like them. Coach Boone handled, and eventually defeated, racism on his team because he got them to work together, to respect each other and their space, and to judge each other …show more content…

One way he did this was by making each room at the camp consist of one black person and one white person. This contributed to the eradication of racism on his team by making them get used to each other. They’d be able to see each others interests based off of the things they brought, the music they listened to, and they would have the ability to become friends because of this. He also made them sit at meal tables together, offense at one table and defense at the other. This helped by enforcing the idea of getting the players used to each other. It also made them get to know each other, they usually had nothing else to do except for talk to each other during their meal times. These are the ways that Coach Boone got his team to work …show more content…

He did this by making all the players learn something about the others and report it to him. This helped because they could learn about each other’s interests and they could start to judge each other based off of that and not by their skin. He also did this by getting some offensive players to play on defense. This helped because the other players could judge them by their skills, maybe in a poor way, but they stopped judging by their looks. These are the ways that Coach Boone got his team to judge each other by their individual merit, not by what they look

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