65-Year-Old Pic Shows Dallas Cowboys Owner Has Long History as White Supremacist
This is why he has never hired a black head coach.
This September 9, 1957, AP Photo shows Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones in the thick of a mob of fellow white students at their racially segregated Arkansas’ North Little Rock High School. They’re blocking the entrance to the school of six black students. As the black kids tried to make their way through the crowd, they were pushed and shoved down the stairs and onto the sidewalk. City cops eventually broke up the altercation —only one arrest was made (not Jones).
The Washington Post has unearthed a sixty-five-year-old photograph of fifteen-year-old Dallas Cowboys (“America’s Team”) owner Jerry Jones standing in the thick of a mob of fellow white racist students at the height of the school desegregation…
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