Chuck Cooper Racism

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Chuck Cooper and others are well known African Americans for taking a stand on segregated sports. They lived in a time when blacks and whites were separated, their was lots of racism, and sports were segregated. Chuck Cooper, Earl Lloyd, and Nathan Sweetwater integrated basketball in 1950. While integrating basketball they were faced with lots of racism. They were also risking their lives because almost every white person was trying to get them to stop and tried whatever they could to try to get them to stop. Many African Americans were inspired by Chuck Cooper, Earl Lloyd, and Nathan Sweetwater actions and followed their footsteps and paved a new path for integrating a sport. Chuck Cooper, Earl Lloyd, and Nathan Sweetwater were all treated …show more content…

1950 they allowed African Americans to play in the NBA. Lots of white people were mad mostly the ones who were in the league. There was a lot of racism and lots of threats trying to get them to leave the NBA .(Bowen) Many people were racist hated Chuck Cooper, Earl Lloyd, and Nathan Sweetwater so they did almost anything they could do to get them out of the league.they were called really offensive names, their families received many threats saying they would kill them if they didn't stop playing basketball. None of the racial slurs stop any of them and now every sport is integrated. …show more content…

Many of those leagues were ran by rich white people that did not want African Americans to play in the leagues they ran. African Americans dominated almost every sport they played. (Kiefer) Jim Crow law cause most of the drama between blacks being segregated. He caused color signs to show up and segregated everything for blacks and whites. This made it extremely hard for African Americans to travel or do anything with whites. It was supposed to be equal but separate but that wasn't the case. The law was attempted to remind people that their different. It wanted African Americans and whites segregated. Whites simply thought that they were better and they should be segregated and have their own leagues.

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