After seeing "Glory Road"...was the 60's that tough on blacks?

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You have to excuse me for being nieve...I was born in the early 70's and obviously don't remember life til about 1980...in fact my first really strong memory was from second grade when my parents woke me up to celebrate the Phillies winning the World Series...kept me home from school and went to JFK stadium to see the parade...I really do recall being there....anyway, I guess my Question is: were we really that mean to black ppl, especially up north? I am being totally honest saying I have alot of black friends, and just can't picture being that mean to black ppl...Don't get me wrong, I have seen enough movies and have read enough books to know that racism was really bad, but...seeing the movie "Glory Road" and all they went through, we have come a long way....

I have to say, I work with alot of black ppl and think the world of some of them, almost to the point I don't even see color...but i know i am considered younger than most on this site, and wonder if ppl have strong recoglections of blacks being soooo mistreated!!!


Just to be politically correct, this isn't a thread to create controversey, just wondering if the movies portray things accuretly???
 
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I'm not much older than you, so it's pretty much before my time.

BTW-Don't take it personal when this gets sent to the RR(or at least politics). We have a few "racially charged" individuals here who will most likely turn this ugly.
 

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If i gets sent to the RR than so be it, i am emotionally charged from seeing this movie...btw, during the movie, to my right and about 5-6 rows in front of me i heared alot of cheering and clapping during the emotional sceenes...stayed til the lights came on and not one black person was in the theatre...the ppl clapping were a mother (about 55 or so) and her 2 teenage daughters...have to admit, i was feeling the same way as i was seeing "Rudy" some 6 or so years ago...
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I'm not much older than you, so it's pretty much before my time.

BTW-Don't take it personal when this gets sent to the RR(or at least politics). We have a few "racially charged" individuals here who will most likely turn this ugly.
 

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One of the "white" reserves on the team is from my hometown. He didnt like the movie the first 2 times that he saw it. They took quite a few liberties when making the film. Some of the restaurant stuff didnt actually happen that way.


Also, it made the coach look better than in reality. In the movie, he turned the program around in just 1 year when in reality it took 4 years. Some people thought that they should have made it to the final 4 in the previous season than when they won it all
 

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Huh? So the film is inaccurate in that they didn't win in the coach's first season?
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One of the "white" reserves on the team is from my hometown. He didnt like the movie the first 2 times that he saw it. They took quite a few liberties when making the film. Some of the restaurant stuff didnt actually happen that way.


Also, it made the coach look better than in reality. In the movie, he turned the program around in just 1 year when in reality it took 4 years. Some people thought that they should have made it to the final 4 in the previous season than when they won it all
 

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No they absolutely DID NOT win in the first season, not even close
 

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I can't speak for the full accuracy of the movie plot details matching up with actual events.

But I grew up in Texas in the 60s and 70s and the general tenor towards blacks was as bad or worse than anything they showed in this movie.

My father was Dallas PD (which of course was not small town TX, but little difference). Though he himself was not a member, in the mid 60s, over 2/3 of the Dallas police dept were members of the KKK, though many clandestine.

Likely the percentage of many small town city officials and law enforcement was even higher.
 

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They did take liberties with the movie and the time frame involved. There were a couple of black players when coach first got there... Nolan Richardson was one of them. But the movie does an excellent job of portraying what that team went through and what it meant to the black players of that time. It showed the Southern schools that they would have to recruit black athletes to be competitive and the bottom line is that winning is what sports is all about, even in the South. You have to remember there were no black athletes, to my knowledge, on any SEC or SWC teams at this time in history. It was shortly after this that both conferences integrated. I don't know how many viewers caught this but the old man playing the gas station attendant in the movie is Coach Haskins in a cameo role. Lucas does a good job of portraying Coach in the movie as does the guy playing Iba. Haskins played for Moe Iba at Okl St and hired his son as an assistant at UTEP or Tex Western as it was known then. Coach Haskins did more with less talent than probably 99% of the coaches in NCAA. He never got the top line talent out of HS. Tim Hardaway? Not hardly recruited. Anthony Davis? Couldn't make a 6 ft jumper when he got to UTEP. Tiny Archibald? Not highly recruited. What helped Coach in the 80's was having Tim Floyd as his recruiter.
 

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