The incident sparked national outcry and shed light over South Africa's racial integration problems.
Seattle's inner city was a place where racial integration had evolved naturally and comfortably.
But after it finished the job, and was freed from court supervision, the district still wanted to ensure racial integration in schools.
Forty years ago, progressives were sure that court-ordered busing of school children to achieve racial integration represented a great victory over bigotry and oppression.
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He also believes, though, that no teams prior to baseball's 1947 racial integration should be considered for all-time greatness, due to the excluded talent pool.
So that we give poor families, working families, an opportunity to move into neighborhoods, to provide some cultural and racial integration in those neighborhoods, to maybe get them access to better schools.
Among them: African tribal traditions, the horrors of slavery, racial integration in the U.S. that paved the way to more freedoms and the migrations of thousands of African-Americans that fractured or reshaped communities.
And what I said to him was that I was confident, looking at the history of the military with respect to racial integration, with respect to the inclusion of women in our armed forces, that that could be managed.
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Yet, these teams performed well relative to their resources, and along with the New York Giants, led the way through the late 1940s and early 1950s in the racial integration of baseball with legendary names Robinson, Larry Doby, Willie Mays, and others.
Maybe that's because the '80s represented something of a sports sweet spot, coming after free agency and racial integration had become the norm, but before further expansion, big payroll disparities and salary cap rules began making it tough for top teams to assemble and stay together.
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