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Message: [QUOTE="phillydad, post: 5102380, member: 755"] Everyone knows the Jackie Robinson story as they should. But I always believed that the Black players who followed him received just as much abuse, if not more. The story, and hatred, did not end with Jackie. Reggie Jackson and I attended the same high school, Cheltenham. He was Class of '64, I graduated six years later. At the time, CHS was 98% white, predominantly Jewish and liberal. He once said he never encountered racism until he got to ASU, which he recanted a bit in recent years. But nothing he encountered growing up in Wyncote Pa would have prepared him for Alabama in the 60s. [/QUOTE]