The real story of Mississippi State in the '63 tournament
The real story of Mississippi State in the '63 tournament
“One Night in March” began in late 1999 as a collaboration between sports writer Paul Jones and video producer Robbie Coblentz. What started as an interview with MSU great Leland Mitchell became a documentary almost two years in the making.
“This story makes national headlines every time Mississippi State is in the Tournament, but we wanted to tell it through Mississippi eyes,” said Robbie Coblentz, executive producer of the video. “It is set in the midst of the forceful integration of Ole Miss and the deaths of the civil rights workers in Philadelphia and tells the true story of a game that changed Mississippi State athletics forever.”
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Continue ReadingThat night wasn’t Rosa Parks and the bus boycott. It wasn’t the March on Washington or the bridge in Selma.
But nearly 40 years later, the echoes of that night still resound.
On the Ides of March in 1963, as the country rumbled with the thunder of the civil rights movement, five white boys in Mississippi State uniforms stepped out on the floor in East Lansing, Mich., for a game of basketball. Integrated basketball.
Interview with former Mississippi State University head basketball coach Joe Dan Gold. Gold was also captain of the historic 1963 MSU team that defied the state government ...
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