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George Taliaferro
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50 Famous IU Alumni: S–W
Sportscaster Sage Steel, actor Kheng Hua Tan, integrationist George Taliaferro, basketball great Isiah Thomas, Wikipedia CEO Jimmy Wales, tennis legend Venus Williams, and presidential…
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George Taliaferro Documentary To Air on Big 10 Network in June
A documentary film about George Taliaferro, the Indiana University football legend, activist, professor, administrator, and philanthropist, is currently being co-produced by Bloomington creative agency…
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Guest Column: Growing Up Taliaferro
While I consider Baltimore, Maryland, my childhood home, I was born in Los Angeles, where my father, George Taliaferro, was a member of the…
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In Honor of George Taliaferro (1927–2018)
There is now a statue at the north gate of Indiana University Memorial Stadium. It was placed there to remind everyone who passes of…
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‘Race and Football in America’
In Race and Football in America, Dawn Knight traces the impact that the late Indiana University football hero George Taliaferro had on her and…
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Bloomingtonians Who Broke the Color Barrier
In 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Jackie Robinson smashed baseball’s color barrier when he became the first African American to play in the major leagues.…
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Feature Story: Black History in Indiana — A Different Perspective (Photo Gallery)
BY DOUGLAS WISSING, ART BY SHANNON ZAHNLE Read the full story here! (Additional photos can be found at the bottom of this page.) A different…
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George Taliaferro: First African American Drafted by the NFL
George Taliaferro, IU Class of 1949, has two powerful reminders of his undergraduate years: an athletic record impressive enough to make him the first…