Sports writer Tom Shanahan looks into pioneers of College Football Integration

Award winning sportswriter Tom Shanahan, meticulously details how college football was integrated in the 1960s and sets the record straight on how the sport broke beyond the limits of a whites-only enclave in his new book, The Right Thing to Do: The True Pioneers of College Football Integration.

The Roman Show spoke to Shanahan on this week's episode. 

Shanahan unearths the untold stories of college football's pioneers -- both in the North and the South. Shanahan documents how college football integration spanned the tumultuous 1960s while blending with the Civil Rights Movement. As the football world grapples with issues of equality and opportunity to this day, The Right Thing to Do, documents the past as a blueprint to what should be done in the future.

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