and gradety caldwell's -- gradety caldwell's own family. these were black guys whose families, whose mothers understood that if you could integrate that football team and not have whites fans on one side and black fans on the other side in this pig stadium you have, if you could begrate that team, you could further integration in this community. >> was there a lot of pushback or tension from the community when grady played on his first football game? >> there was pushback from his own white team teammates, and then i recorded their interviews, and they later regretted that, and in this same season they realized that grady caldwell was a fellow with strong character. so there was early push, early resistance, yes. and thal albany high school coah who just recently passed away made a point. the cafeteria on camp, he would go sit by grady, and all the other white players would not is accept him, but coach cook did that. and the the other thing coach cook did at night when he felt there could be problems, he had grady sit by him. there were peo