James chats with Judge Willie Blackmon, '73, one of the first African American athletes on scholarship at Texas A&M University, and Athletic Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 1994. Judge Blackmon talks about his experiences in Aggieland post-integration and now, his book project, and even tells the little known origin story of Reveille I.
The podcast references a Finaid.org study about the distribution of grants and scholarships by race. The link to that study, published in 2011, is here: http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/20110902racescholarships.pdf
Music by Subhashish Panigrahi under Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. No changes were made to the track.
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