1920s Black All-American Football Teams
The Pittsburgh Courier selected Black All-American football teams dating back to the 1920s. Writers from the newspaper’s staff…
The Pittsburgh Courier selected Black All-American football teams dating back to the 1920s. Writers from the newspaper’s staff…
Alonzo Smith “Jake” Gaither coached the Florida A&M Rattlers for 25 years between 1945 through 1969. His winning…
Historians often credit the American Football League (AFL) with opening up new pro football job opportunities for African…
From Deacon Jones to Steve McNair, many HBCU football players have impacted NFL history. Here, we spotlight three…
Two HBCU football stars, Robert Brazile and Michael Strahan, were inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame.…
“A Match Game of Ball” It was the 1892 Christmas season, and two tiny North Carolina church schools…
Their Game, Their Times: An Oral History of the Golden Age of HBCU Football is an oral history conducted by The Game Before the Money Oral History Foundation, a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit. The project aims to preserve the life and career stories of HBCU football players who played between the 1950s – 1970s. We believe this area of American history to be both highly important and vastly undocumented. Interview clips will be made available in a future podcast series. Relevant articles will also be posted on HBCUFootball.org. This program is made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, the local affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
“The problem of the twentieth Century is the problem of the color line.” – W.E.B. DuBois, Souls of…