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Indiana Basketball Player Broke Racial Barrier, Changed Game Forever
By Zak Keefer — 2007
Clarence Walker quietly broke the color barrier, wading through a thicket of unforgiving racial tensions along the way, bottling up his private pain for the greater good. He never fired back. He couldn’t.
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