14 black football players kicked off team over protest armbands are honored 50 years later

LARAMIE, Wyo. — Fifty years after 14 black football players were kicked off the University of Wyoming football team for seeking to wear armbands to protest racism, eight of them returned to the Laramie campus to commemorate the anniversary as the school takes another step toward reconciliation.

Protest is appropriate for athletes who want use their fame and visibility to be heard, Black 14 member Tony Gibson said. They never got a chance to mention the armbands before Eaton lit into them about coming from fatherless families and saying they would only be accepted by traditionally black colleges if they weren't at the University of Wyoming, they said.

"I was angry about the fact that I had to pay to go to school. I was angry at how the coach had insulted not only me, my fellow teammates, my ancestry," Grimes said.

50 YEARS! MOVE ON!

I am ignorant about this I will admit it. What is it there wearing and how does it help against racism?

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