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Arthur D. Hlavaty ([personal profile] supergee) wrote2011-01-10 05:59 pm
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Carlton Chester Gilchrist (1935-2011)

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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