Today is the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and the news has been dominated by stories about his reach and influence. One of the most interesting I’ve read centers around former Kentucky football coach Bill Curry, who opened up to The Undefeated about how football changed his views on race, prompting him to march at Dr. King’s funeral procession in Atlanta.
Curry, a Georgia native, was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in 1964 and recalls adapting to playing on an integrated team for the first time. Those early experiences changed him forever, he says.