Closing the Show
The story of the amazing 1969-70 East Highland High School Indians
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1969 the East Highland High School Indians of Sylacauga, Alabama, population 12,000, went undefeated in high school football 9 wins 0 losses, averaged 55pts a game. They gave up a total of 6 pts all seaon with the defense not giving up any. They won the state 2A basketball title and back to back state track championships but were denied the opportunity to play for the state 2A football championship. In spite of being the highest scoring team in the state, all this a year before whole scale intergration of the public school systems in the state of Alabama, this is their story . Anybody that loves high school sports will enjoy reading about the Indians in this book as I take them on a journey back to the past starting with football and ending with track and field. This book hopes to keep alive the Indians' awesome sports history, while allowing those who witnessed them to go back down memory lane, and those generations that never saw them to read and grasp their wonderful legacy.
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About the Book
It's a story of a black high school in the fifties and sixties during a segregated era of the deep south, specifically the state of Alabama and the amazing final season of 1969-1970, which was the final year before whole scale intergration in the state of Alabama. The book is a celebration of the accomplishments of East Highland High School and its hall of fame coach Haywood Scissum forty years ago.
About the Author
Name: Michael T Smith
Age: 49
Race: Black American
Native of Sylacauga, Alabama ex marine & East Highland Historian
I will be telling the story of life in the Jim Crow segregated south for black citizens because I lived it, while narrating the story of the Indians.