HBCUs Growing Alabama By Enabling Dreamers At An Early Age
By Dennis Washington
John Stallworth dreamed of going to college, but he didn’t know how he would get there. Not only could his family not afford to send him, his high school football team won only one game his senior year.
“The fallacy in my thoughts was that I thought you could do it independently of anybody and anything, and you can’t,” Stallworth said.
But thanks to a friendship with Sylvester Croom Jr., who would years later become the first black head football coach in the Southeastern Conference, Stallworth got an offer to play football at Alabama A&M University in Huntsville. He excelled and went on to become one of the greatest wide receivers in NFL history.
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