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The Great Migration
The great migration is the thing that i really wanted to get at in sports. You had bill russell there, the great frank robinson, kurt flood, veda pins and so many of these great players. And then you have the school they went to called the school of champions. It was mc liman's high school. They talk about all o this as though it was this great coincidence. It wasn't coincidence. The fact that black people moved from texas louisiana, arkansas. People used to call oakland new orleans west,. because so many people from that migration were from louisiana.
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