Black Magic Part 1 Part 6

Filmmaker Dan Klores links the rise of the United States civil rights movement to the history of African American basketball players and coaches at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Narrated by actor Samuel L. Jackson and musician Wynton Marsalis, this documentary explores the intersection of sports and culture through game footage and interviews with players such as Willis Reed and Dick Barnett.

[@reginaldjackson2288]

Outstanding docu series that demonstrated our dominant talent. The discrimination that existed which kept so many blacks out of the NBA was a travesty.

[@92463mike]

I always knew Cliff Hagan was a racist, but I never knew to what extent. Now I know. This is tragic. How can someone that good, a Cleo Hill, be cut from the league!! Imagine a team doing that to Michael Jordan!! The Hawks had to be pretty stupid as an organization to draft someone number one, then freeze him out and blackball him??? Racism at it's most ignorant!!

[@tw69hands2]

+michael swanson: They colluded on every single level of the team. Cleo Hill had a 40 inch vertical jump in the 1950s as well as all of the other skills that a hall of fame player had. Years after that, Cleo Hill would go to NBA team tryouts and dominate every single workout and magically he'd be denied. No lawyer took his case.

[@d820m]

and Clyde Lovellette too.... one of Cleo Hill's biggest strikes was that the only other blck player on the Hawks at that time was Lenny Wilkens, who unfortunately for Cleo, Lenny was in the military and Cleo was on his own...I respected Paul Seymour because he stood up for Hill

[@d820m]

too bad he didn't hang on long enough play in the ABA

[@georgemosley3704]

Thats a damn shame...period!!

[@jlangstoniiwilliams9287]

jl

[@oluham]

RE: Cleo Hill, DISGRACEFUL!!!!!!