Coaches
Coaches
Garwin DeBerry
“They don’t think we need a Black football coach here.”
Garwin DeBerry
“Now, do I have to show you everything in black and white?”
Julia Shields
“The Daily Progress called us the Lane Lonesome 11.”
Steve Helvin
“It was hard playing football for Tommy Theodose and Joe Bingler.”
David Sloan
“My father, though a devoted golfer, quit Farmington when Farmington refused to integrate.”
Lloyd Snook
“Don’t you dare start getting Black athletes on our football team.”
Jim Blackburn
“He was not interested in tokens.”
Jim Blackburn
“I wanted to just walk off the field right then but I said, “That’ll really cause a scene.””
William Redd
“He opens up his coat and he’s got a pistol in his hand.”
William Redd
“We had a fairly large Black team.”
Robert King
“The only racist problem I had was that one year we was playing Albemarle High School.”
Veronica Jones
“The coaches would buy our cleats.”
Veronica Jones
“Didn’t know it then, but clearly it was racism that was a part of that.”
David Sloan
“If he were coaching today the way he coached then, he would be in jail.”
David Sloan
“At Burley, there never was an empty seat.”
Jimmy Hollins
Brock Strickler
“I am proud of what we had done.”
Brock Strickler
“I just think the coach didn’t want a Black kid on the team.”