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Among many famous episodes from the life span and career of men's basketball mentor Dean Smith, few loom as large as his recruitment of Charlie Scott, the first African American scholarship sportsman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Drawn together by college basketball in a time of momentous change, Smith and Scott helped transform a school, a community, and the racial panorama of sports in the South. But there is much more to the story than is commonly advised. In Game Changers, Artwork Chansky shows an powerful saga of race, college sport, and small-town politics. At the center were two teenagers, Scott and Smith, both destined for greatness but battling through challenges on / off the court, included in this the storms of civil privileges protest and the painfully slow integration of the Chapel Hill, much less intensifying than its reputation today might suggest. Sketching on extensive personal interviews and a number of other sources, Chansky requires listeners beyond the basketball court to spotlight the community that backed Smith and Scott during these strenuous years, from helper basketball mentor John Lotz to important pastor the Reverend Robert Seymour to pioneering African American mayor Howard Lee.
