"'The Smell of Roses and the Color of the Players:' College Football and the Expansion of the Civil RIghts Movement in the West"

Outlet Title

Journal of Sports History

Authors

• Kurt E. Kemper, Dakota State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2004

Abstract

College students in 1961 utilized college football to make tangible linkages not only to the civil rights movement taking place in the South but also their own restrictions on campus, shaping a growing awareness of the broader of the restrains of American Cold War liberalism.

Recommended Citation

Kemper, Kurt E., ""'The Smell of Roses and the Color of the Players:' College Football and the Expansion of the Civil RIghts Movement in the West"" (2004). Research & Publications. 51.
https://scholar.dsu.edu/anspapers/51