Term Papers on Racism

Term Paper Title	Racism
# of Words	747
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.99

Racism

On the morning of October 17th, 1969, 14 black football players from the University of Wyoming walked into head coach Lloyd Eaton’s office wearing black armbands. They were immediately kicked off the team. The events of the next 25 hours and later weeks produced one of the biggest controversies in the state ever. The incident of the “Black 14” was the unanimous choice of Wyoming news writers and broadcasters as the states top news story of 1969. The dismissal from Eaton stemmed from a coaching staff rule against players participating in student protests. The 14 were protesting the racial policies of the Mormon Church. For the Wyoming Cowboy football team – undefeated in four games at the time and nationally ranked, and in pursuit of an unprecedented fourth straight Western Athletic Conference championship – the results were devastating.
The incident became a highly emotional issue. One booster club member remarked “Wyoming football has done more to unite the state than anything else. It’s no northern ranchers against southern mineral interests when it comes to Wyoming football. We’re one state behind the cowboys.”
The fate of the 14 black athletes fell into the hands of a Cheyenne federal court. A prominent Wyoming democrat and attorney, Teno Roncalio, and two other Cheyenne attorneys were involved in attempts to mediate the confrontation almost from the beginning. “We wanted to find some accommodation with which everyone could live. I won’t say we were seeking a compromise, because I don’t like to compromise where principles are involved – no one does.” Roncalios name was linked to the crisis because two of his law partners had aided civil rights attorney William Waterman in his suit against the University. Waterman was seeking more than $1 million dollars for the black athletes and was suing to enjoin the university from dismissing the 14 football players. Roncalio informed the papers that as long as the athletes insisted on all 14 players remain, and as long as coach Eaton insisted that he will not accept them back until spring practice, there wasn’t much lawyers could do to put them back on the team.
There was much controversy among students and campus organizations over the decision of coach Eaton. Black students stood ...

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