This is a nice story of how far we have come, in some areas.

[Rainbowreflect]

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Willie Evans and the 1958 Buffalo Bulls are finally going to a bowl game.

In what's proving to be a fitting tribute celebrating the 50th anniversary of a team that took a courageous stand against segregation, Evans and 20 or so teammates will be honored during the International Bowl on Jan. 3 in Toronto when Buffalo makes the first bowl appearance in school history fifty years after it first got a bid.

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Evans was on the first -- and until this year, only -- Buffalo team invited to a bowl game. But that changed when Bulls players unanimously rejected an invitation to compete in the 1958 Tangerine Bowl because of a rule that barred black players from competing with white players on the same field.

Buffalo had two black players who would have otherwise been left behind: Evans, the star halfback, and Mike Wilson.


http://reporternews.com/news/2008/dec/18/1958-buffalo-team-to-finally-make-bowl/?partner=RSS

[Warpy]

1. Someone posted a collection of polls in 1968 here last week

and one that stood out like a sore thumb for me was that 39% of whites polled said they would never go to a black physician.

It explains why my black dentist in Boston seemed a little surprised when I walked through his door and sat in the chair in the early 70s instead of walking out.

I'm glad times have changed.

[Rainbowreflect]

2. I thought it was so cool that when the did go to a bowl game

it is with a black couch. I heard the story on TV over the weekend and it made me cry.