Your assertion needs further clarification since Fritz Pollard was the star player for the Akron Pros, who won the first NFL championship. Pollard continued to play and coach in the NFL until 1926. In 1923, while playing for the Hammond Pros, he became the first African American quarterback in the league.

Black folk burned down their own economic house after the 1964 public accommodations act was passed, since we no longer thought we needed to support our own shops and businesses. After all, we were skinning and grinning at the victories of Dr. MLK and his SCLC civil rights movement. De Facto and De Jurie segregation…