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Woodlawn : One Hope. One Dream. One Way. by Todd Gerelds with Mark Schlabach is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Now a major motion picture starring Jon Voight, Nic Bishop, and C. Thomas Howell. This riveting true story of courage, strength, and football at the height of racial tension in Birmingham, Alabama tells the story of Coach Tandy Gerelds, his running back Tony Nathan, and a high school football game that healed a city. In the midst of violent, impassioned racial tensions in Birmingham, Alabama, new football coach, Tandy Gerelds, was struggling to create a winning football team at Woodlawn High School—one of the last schools in Birmingham to integrate. The team he was handed did not have the caliber of players he needed to win—until he saw Tony Nathan run. But Tony was African American and Coach Gerelds knew that putting him in as running back would be like drawing a target on his own back and the back of his soon-to-be star player. But Coach Gerelds saw something in Tony, and he knew that his decision to let him play was about more than football. It was about doing what was right for the school—and the city. And soon, the only place in the city where blacks and whites got along was on Coach Gerelds's football team. With the help of a new school chaplain, Tony learned to look beyond

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Author

Todd Gerelds with Mark Schlabach

Publisher

Howard Books

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501118104

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Sports, Anthropology

Rating

3.82 / 5 (171 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14