He had a football scholarship from Illinois. After he reportedly was told Black people couldn’t play quarterback,he transferred to North Carolina A&T in Greensboro,where he became the first-string quarterback,an honor student in sociology and economics, and student body president
BREAKING: The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader from the era of MLK to Black Lives Matter, has died at 84, his family said.
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