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As the recent film Glory Road reminded, the early desegregation of college sports often was neither easy nor pleasant. Here, Bill Elder recalls how he and a courageous group of white and black student-athletes broke racial barriers at a small college in northeast Alabama in the early 1970s. The setting was Sand Mountain, an area that four decades earlier had given rise to the Scottsboro Boys case, an area where racial attitudes for some had not changed much. Elder, recently retired from a successful career as a college sports administrator, shows vividly why he sometimes wondered whether he and his players would live through their experience. Abandoned by their school officials, the players faced constant threats and harassment and occasional violence. But they kept playing and winning games and forging bonds among themselves that lasted long after that first season was over. Through it all, Elder, an Alabama native and lifelong Baptist, watched his community with both a loving and an objective eye. His brief eyewitness account of both the worst and best elements of Southerners during this tumultuous era is compelling testimony.
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Daniel Tuthill
reviewed All Guts and No Glory: An Alabama Coach's Memoir of Desegregating College Athletics on September 26, 2013
All Guts and No Glory
I first read this in 2003 after discovering the Liberal Catholic Church and mystical Christianity. Despite the crosses on the cover, the book is not specifically religious but generally spiritual, with deference and respect to all religions -- as it should be.
There is, however, a problem with this book. Not the cover, not the fonts, not the pagination, nor illustrations. The problem is that it is written SO WELL! While I just cannot believe in most of what he writes, he is articulate, measured, and sincere. I don't believe in Atlantis, Lemuria, nor Mu but he makes me want to! He is in a group of theosophical/mystical or Liberal Catholic writers from the first decades of the 20th century who ALL wrote convincing and gentle books; they were Irving Cooper, James Wedgwood, Annie Besant, Max Heindel, and Charles Leadbeater.
With regards to this book, other reviewers have gone through and detailed the the chapters. I will just say the two on the 7 Planes of Consciousness is fascinating reading. The planes, sub-planes, and repeating sub-planes (all in factors of 7) sounds as neat as the multiverse -- even though all I know of it is from Stargate Atlantis.
If you are open minded, liberal, and religiously tolerant, I suggest giving it a go. One bit of history: Henry Agard Wallace, a Secretary of Agriculture and one time VP for FDR was ordained in the Liberal Catholic Church.
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