On this day in 1966, Texas Western (now called University of Texas at El Paso) becomes the first college basketball team to win the “Final Four” with an all-black starting lineup. Until that moment, at the height of the civil-rights era, no major-college team had ever started five black players in an NCAA championship game.
This satin quilt, titled “Basketball Star Quilt,” was made in 1999 by Rae Belgarde of Brockton, Montana. The quilt is now part of the Michigan State University Museum collection and was included in an exhibition, “To Honor and Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions,” that traveled to several U.S. states and Canada from 1999-2004.
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Source:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/texas-western-defeats-kentucky-in-ncaa-finals
Posted by Amy E. Milne
Executive Director, Quilt Alliance
amy.milne@quiltalliance.org