Walk-On: My Reluctant Journey to Integration at Auburn University

Biography & Memoir, Sports, Historical
Cover of the book Walk-On: My Reluctant Journey to Integration at Auburn University by Thom Gossom, Jr., Best Gurl inc
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Author: Thom Gossom, Jr. ISBN: 9780989086509
Publisher: Best Gurl inc Publication: April 1, 2013
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Thom Gossom, Jr.
ISBN: 9780989086509
Publisher: Best Gurl inc
Publication: April 1, 2013
Imprint:
Language: English

From Walk-On, to starting wingback, to Billion Dollar Man...

Thom Gossom Jr. did not set out to be a groundbreaker. He did not apply to Auburn University with the goal of being the first black athlete to graduate from the almost all-white college. He just knew that he wanted to play football and he wanted to play football at Auburn. A gifted athlete and good student, Gossom was accepted to Auburn University in 1970 and forever left the comfort of his segregated hometown boyhood to enter into a world of privilege that was just starting to grapple with desegregation. Loneliness, anger, jealousy and overt racism awaited him on and off the football field. As Gossom fought for his place on the team and on campus he became part of the movement to make the world a better place for those who were to come after him, and in doing so, became a part of history.

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From Walk-On, to starting wingback, to Billion Dollar Man...

Thom Gossom Jr. did not set out to be a groundbreaker. He did not apply to Auburn University with the goal of being the first black athlete to graduate from the almost all-white college. He just knew that he wanted to play football and he wanted to play football at Auburn. A gifted athlete and good student, Gossom was accepted to Auburn University in 1970 and forever left the comfort of his segregated hometown boyhood to enter into a world of privilege that was just starting to grapple with desegregation. Loneliness, anger, jealousy and overt racism awaited him on and off the football field. As Gossom fought for his place on the team and on campus he became part of the movement to make the world a better place for those who were to come after him, and in doing so, became a part of history.

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