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'Mexicans Don’t Play Basketball'

'Mexicans Don’t Play Basketball'

Latino USA · My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

January 31, 202516m 56s

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Show Notes

In 1939, a Mexican-American high school basketball team shocked the world. Basketball, at the time, was considered a white man's game. Until Lanier High School, with their all Mexican-American basketball team, won the 1939 San Antonio city championship. But at the moment of their greatest triumph, things suddenly took a turn for this worse.

This episode originally aired in 2016.

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