In 1966, Chapel Hill was still a town rooted in the Old South, UNC was a rather conservative campus and Dean Smith was no more than the coach who replaced Frank McGuire, whose legendary Tar Heels from New York had beaten Wilt Chamberlain for a national basketball championship.
And Charlie Scott was a young man from a broken home in Harlem, smart and athletic beyond measure but a bit tentative for the work of a trailblazer.
Their tour together through the chaotic late 1960s, widely known in broad terms, becomes a story rich in detail and societal context in Art Chansky’s satisfying “Game Changers.