Scott Ellsworth - The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph

The speaker, a historian and author, shares his journey of writing a book about basketball's evolution from a slow-paced game to a high-paced sport post-WWII. During his research, he discovered a secret integrated basketball game in 1944, which led to his book 'The Secret Game'. He also uncovered early civil rights movements in the South, highlighting unknown individuals who fought against segregation before the well-known events of the 1960s.

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