Carlton Chester Gilchrist (1935-2011)

[supergee]

Cookie Gilchrist was a great running back, but he did something even better. In 1965 the American Football League was going to play its all-star game in New Orleans, but Gilchrist led a boycott because of the way the black players were being treated there, and the league had to move the game.

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[laughingrat]

That was a pretty awesome thing to do.

(The gentleman in the icon apparently hired his own dang train to carry himself and his band across the country, because of segregation.)