{"651828":{"#nid":"651828","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"From \u0027Bottom of Totem Pole,\u0027 NBA Begins Its Climb in 1950s","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohnny Smith,\u0026nbsp;the Julius C. \u0026quot;Bud\u0026quot; Shaw Professor of Sports History and an associate professor in the School of History and Sociology, was quoted in the article, \u0026quot;From \u0026#39;bottom of totem pole,\u0026#39; NBA begins its climb in 1950s,\u0026quot; published October 20, 2021 on\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EAPNews.com.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;But if you go back to the \u0026lsquo;50s and the \u0026rsquo;60s, this was a moment of the civil rights movement, when Black athletes were breaking through, integrating professional sports leagues \u0026mdash; the NBA, the NFL, you go back to Jackie Robinson and Major League Baseball \u0026mdash; and they became symbols of racial pride, symbols of Black achievement and that mattered to folks in the Black community. They could look at someone who had broken a barrier, who had disproven the mythologies around white supremacy.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35926","created_gmt":"2021-10-19 19:10:19","changed_gmt":"2021-10-22 13:50:28","author":"schurchman3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mlb-nba-sports-baseball-racial-injustice-cd81a5b64be39578dfeccb6ae23e7221","dateline":{"date":"2021-10-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-10-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"602698":{"id":"602698","type":"image","title":"Johnny Smith ","body":null,"created":"1519232152","gmt_created":"2018-02-21 16:55:52","changed":"1519232152","gmt_changed":"2018-02-21 16:55:52","alt":"","file":{"fid":"229721","name":"JohnSmithWeb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":97065,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg?itok=Qh5ePnxI"}}},"media_ids":["602698"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}