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'That’s How Segregated Things Were Back Then Living in Washington'

bobkuska
May 27, 2021
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[Years ago, I interviewed Dave Brown, who was Elgin Baylor’s basketball coach at Washington, D. C.’s segregated, all-Black Spingarn High School in the early 1950s. Brown was well into his retirement years, but still sharp as a tack and full of life. Though I was mainly interested in learning more about basketball in the District of Columbia during the !…

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