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A Sports Writer Corrects a Mistake

I was once an unwitting party to the perpetuation of incorrect history. In January 1973, with great fanfare and under the guidance of a media-savvy athletic director, Oberlin College announced in both national press releases and The Oberlin Review, the campus newspaper, that it had made a historic minority hire. The college trumpeted...

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