Origins of Speed Pt. 2 John B. McLendon & The Team That Forced Integration
About this episode
This episode explores John B. McLendon's impact on basketball integration and the success of Tennessee A&I in the 1950s.
Send us Fan Mail In Part 2 of our series on John B. McLendon, we move from the "Secret Game" of the 1940s to the public dominance of the 1950s. In 1954, McLendon arrived at the NAIA tournament in Kansas City with a non-negotiable demand: his team would eat in the same restaurants and sleep in the same hotels as the white teams. This episode covers the rise of Tennessee A&I (now Tennessee State), the first college basketball team in history to win three consecutive national championships (...
Topics covered
- John B. McLendon
- integration
- Tennessee A&I
- NAIA tournament
- basketball history
Keywords
- Secret Game
- national championships
- 1950s basketball
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