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Charlie Scott became the first Black scholarship athlete at the University of North Carolina in 1966. Playing basketball for Carolina, he led the team to ACC championships and two straight Final Four appearances, and he played on the 1968 Olympic team.
Source: UNC Libraries, Hugh Morton collection blog: Black History at UNC: Charles Scott
1948– · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
6 works about Charlie Scott are indexed here. 1 held at OCPL →
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Art Chansky's 2016 account of Dean Smith, Charlie Scott and the years that changed Chapel Hill as a Southern college town. Scott was the first Black scholarship player in the Carolina basketball program. Topics include civil rights, racism in sports and the university's twentieth-century history.
Included because: Catalog heading in the OCPL record: Scott, Charlie, 1948-.
Race, sports and student protest at UNC are the subjects of this fourth interview with law professor Daniel H. Pollitt, recorded February 15, 1991, by Ann McColl for the Southern Oral History Program. Pollitt discusses the integration of Carolina athletics, including basketball player Charlie Scott, the university's first Black scholarship athlete, the discrimination Black athletes met, student activism from the late 1950s through the 1960s, and the Campus Y. Published online in 2008 by the UNC-Chapel Hill Library in Documenting the American South.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Scott, Charlie, 1948-.
Hannah Lebowitz's 2014 student thesis at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the newspaper coverage of Charlie Scott, born 1948, the first Black scholarship athlete at the university. Fifty seven pages with illustrations. The study examines the Daily Tar Heel, the Carolina Times of Durham and the News and Observer, addressing college integration and race relations in the press.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Scott, Charlie, 1948-.
Mark Briggs wrote this 2000 thesis on the integration of Southern college athletics during the 1960s, following Charlie Scott at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Perry Wallace at Vanderbilt. One hundred eighty typescript leaves with a bibliography. Chuck Stone advised the work, with Ferrell Guillory and Genna Rae McNeil on the committee.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Scott, Charlie, 1948-.
Bob Rubin's magazine profile of Charlie Scott, the first African American scholarship athlete at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, hung on his last second basket that beat Davidson by 87 to 85. It ran in Sport for January 1970 and survives as a detached clipping with a color portrait, four pages in all.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Scott, Charlie, 1948-.
Dated 1967, an action shot of Charlie Scott on the court for the University of North Carolina. One print in the UNC Athletics binder, Chapel Hill Historical Society Prints and Photographs Collection, CHHS.002.
Included because: Their name appears in the record.
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Art Chansky's 2016 account of Dean Smith, Charlie Scott and the years that changed Chapel Hill as a Southern college town. Scott was the first Black scholarship player in the Carolina basketball program. Topics include civil rights, racism in sports and the university's twentieth-century history.
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