A Fighter for Rights

Interesting article on the battle for civil rights. Including this on GT:

In 1934, the University of Michigan basketball team dropped a black player, Franklin Lett, from its team because, in coach F.C. Cappon's words, "there has never been a colored boy to play in the Big Ten."

In a pointed letter to Cappon, Wilkins, then the NAACP's assistant secretary, called the action an "insult to Lett and all blacks." Two weeks later, Lett was back on the team, though he never played.

Michigan and Wilkins had clashed earlier that year when the school's football team did not dress a black player against Georgia Tech in deference to its opponent's segregated attitudes.

That subsequent outcry grew so loud that Michigan president Alexander Rubin complained, "My life is being made miserable by arguments with the colored."