How The Loyola Ramblers, 1963 NCAA Champions, Changed The Color Of College Basketball

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How The Loyola Ramblers, 1963 NCAA Champions, Changed The Color Of College Basketball

吉彩网网站 | By Dick Gordon

Published April 5, 2013 at 7:24 AM EDT

Photo: The Loyola Chicago Ramblers played against Cincinnati in the 1963 N.C.A.A. tournament title game.

The 1963 NCAA Championship game was much more than a battle to decide the best college basketball team in America. It was a loud statement the civil rights movement had begun.

Jerry Harkness was the African American captain of the Loyola Chicago Ramblers. He tells Dick Gordon about the moment he realized he was part of history, and about his anticipation now of his induction into the NCAA Hall of Fame.

Hear this interview at . Also in this show: Brian Banks, who spent more than five years in jail on a false rape accusation, ; and the Grammy-winning Nashville .

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Before coming to North Carolina Public Radio to host The Story, Dick Gordon was host of The Connection, a daily national call-in talk show produced in Boston, from 2001 to 2005. Gordon is well-known in the profession as an experienced, seasoned journalist with an extensive background in both international and domestic reporting. He was a war correspondent and back-up host for the CBC's This Morning, a national current affairs radio program. An award winning journalist, he has also served as a Parliamentary reporter, Moscow correspondent and South Asia correspondent for both radio and television.

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