Glory Road 0
Apparently, the movie Glory Road played faster and looser with the facts than is usual even in Hollywood.
NPR had a story on it yesterday that’s well worth a listen:
And today George Will takes aim at it:
And a personal observation: I was paying close attention to the news at that time. Race and Civil Rights were big stuff and they were changing lives; it was that year that the first black student was enrolled in my public school. I certainly remember no splash of publicity about the NCAA championship making social history.
This was before the NCAA playoffs became the carnival they are today. They were certainly important–after all, they were the championship–but they had not yet become March Madness. Indeed, the NIT, which then existed simply as a post-season tournament, was almost as important as the NCAA.
Then I noticed it’s a Disney movie. Disney has always been at its best with fantasy.
