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This document discusses the racial politics surrounding college bowl games in the American South from 1935 to 1965. It describes how four major Southern bowl games - the Cotton, Sugar, Orange, and Sun Bowls - initially excluded African American players to comply with Jim Crow laws. However, after World War II, Northern colleges increasingly defended racial equality and forced Southern bowls to moderate segregation policies to attract top teams. Militant segregationists then tried to reimpose rigid segregati

Author

Tiesha Dunlap

Language

EN