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[https://www.npr.org/2011/09/04/140066378/a-showdown-that-changed-footballs-racial-history by All Things Considered 4/9/11 npr] | [https://www.npr.org/2011/09/04/140066378/a-showdown-that-changed-footballs-racial-history by All Things Considered 4/9/11 npr] | ||
As Thomas G. Smith writes in his new book, Showdown: JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins, Redskins owner George Preston Marshall was quite happy running the last segregated team. "He loved being a holdout because he loved the attention," Smith told weekends on All Things Considered guest host Laura Sullivan. | As Thomas G. Smith writes in his new book, Showdown: JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins, Redskins owner George Preston Marshall was quite happy running the last segregated team. "He loved being a holdout because he loved the attention," Smith told weekends on All Things Considered guest host Laura Sullivan. | ||
=====N-word: The troubled history of the racial slur===== | |||
[https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53749800 by Cherry Wilson 4/10/20 BBC] | |||
The BBC received more than 18,600 complaints for using the word in full in a report about a racially aggravated attack in July. | |||
