After the freedom rides ended, after the bus boycotts and sit-ins, the marches and protests, and long after the TV cameras and federal marshals packed up and went home, Henry Harris enrolled at Auburn University in 1968.
An exceptional basketball player, he was valedictorian o.
Brave but alone, Harris was the first African American on athletic scholarship at Auburn and, more importantly, the first black football or basketball player at any of the seven SEC schools in the Deep South.
After the freedom rides ended, after the bus boycotts and sit-ins, the marches and protests, and long after the TV cameras and federal marshals packed up and went home, Henry Harris enrolled at Auburn University in 1968