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Did Dallas still have segregated hotels in 1969? If not, that would end the debate.

There is no debate.  Just bullshit dragged up from over 50 years ago.

Paterno let his team vote, they voted not to try to play for the national championship.  It's been settled for longer than I've been alive.

In order to beat Notre Dame The Horns had to make 2 long drives moving the ball by mostly rushing plays.  The next day Jo Pa stated that Texas would not have been able to make 70 yard drives on the ground twicw on Penn St.  That even pissed everyone off more.

Talk is cheap.  UGA is rather flawed, I think they may beat Tenn this Saturday depending on the usual.  It won't be a blowout, I expect.

There is no debate.  Just bullshit dragged up from over 50 years ago.

Paterno let his team vote, they voted not to try to play for the national championship.  It's been settled for longer than I've been alive.

That's how I remember it too. I believed that Penn State chickened out.
But were Dallas hotels segregated?

Look at that!  Just another of the many reasons to love the Dallas Cowboys!  Thanks for posting that uplifting article about the desegregation of the NFL, and Dallas, in the early and mid 1960s!

Nobody has scored 20 points on UT this season... will oohga?  

Lotta chatter about iamaliava being in concussion protocol.. and may not play... I believe Moore is every bit as good as Nico.  My main concern is Sampson's health.  He's a handful of a smallish runner, even for mighty jawja. 

I figure a nail biter,  which means one team is going to blow out the other, as in most cases I call for a tight game... and as much as I love my team, I don't see them lighting up Georgia at home... but I will say this: if it could happen it's currently about the best condition for it to happen that could be expected.  

UT wins this one, fellas... 31-17.  Not really, but really.  Not.  If UT can play in concert as they did earlier this season it may be the Bama/UGA game all over again, except UT doesn't let UGA climb back.  

Lulz bullshit.

https://hpbagpipe.com/8964/features/the-history-of-race-in-dallas-black-movements-part-two/

Dallas ISD planned desegregation as a “stair-step” plan, integrating one grade each year. 
That first year in 1961 involved only 18 Black children across eight formerly all-white elementary schools. By 1964, only 131 of the 9,400 Black students in Dallas ISD were in desegregated classrooms. Despite mounting federal pressure to move quickly, only 57 of 177 campuses were integrated by the time 1970 came along.
Still, Dallas ISD declared itself desegregated in 1967.  uhh, what?
Tasby sought to overhaul this ambling, leisurely desegregation process. After securing legal assistance, Tasby sued new Dallas ISD superintendent Nolan Estes for continuing to operate a dual school system. 
This 1971 case, Tasby v. Estes, led to Judge William M. Taylor declaring that Dallas ISD still ran a segregated system. However, it wasn’t truly resolved until a decade later.   so 1981 then?
Each of Taylor’s court-ordered desegregation plans were struck down by the Fifth Circuit. The court proceedings were complicated, and at one point, they reached the Supreme Court. Eventually, it was transferred over to Judge Barefoot Sanders   only in Texas in hopes of creating a plan that survived an appeal.
The most controversial aspect of the plan was busing. During the 1970s, Dallas ISD attempted to integrate schools by busing Black students into historically white schools. Black students felt unwelcome in their new schools, which were often far away from their neighborhoods. 
At the same time, the district suffered from “white flight” as white Dallasites fled Dallas ISD for private schools or suburban districts. 
After the Fifth Circuit upheld Sanders’ desegregation plan, Dallas ISD finally was able to start the process of desegregation sans busing and set up a system that still exists today. To create this plan, the court worked with a tri-ethnic committee to monitor Dallas ISD’s progress.
They employed the use of special programs to improve schools in Black neighborhoods, so Black students didn’t have to be bused long distances to get quality education. 
Dallas ISD converted previously all-Black schools to magnet schools to improve education in those areas, but also to attract white students for further integration. They built other new and integrated schools. Sanders ordered Dallas ISD to change attendance zones for schools and employ a diverse faculty.
Dallas ISD was under court supervision for the entire period of time they underwent the desegregation process. Sanders didn’t declare the district to be officially desegregated until 2003. 
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Around the same time Tasby started fighting for desegregation, activists in Fair Park were fighting for their homes. After complaints from State Fair visitors about surrounding neighborhoods, the city of Dallas claimed they needed extra parking as a pretense for demolishing Black homes and increasing fair attendance. 
The residents of the Fair Park area partnered with white members of the University Park United Methodist Church to form the Fair Park Block Partnership. Peter Johnson of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a civil rights group, helped them protest against the demolition, prompting criticism from first Black city councilman and Committee of 14 alum George Allen about his methods. 
“I look with disfavor on an outsider coming in here…organizing a boycott,” Allen said in 1969. “Sure there are some inequities, but we need to work at this through Black leadership that has been working a long time and is really getting things done.”
Johnson made an empty but strategic threat to launch a protest during the nationally televised Cotton Bowl Parade in Dallas, which earned the church in which they gathered several bomb threats. 
The Fair Park homeowners eventually lost their homes, but they were paid more at the end than initially offered.


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Yeah, let's go play football down there!!!!