probably talk about this than i can, but back in 1960, at the sit-ins leading them was reverend james lofton who was a student at the end of the of the time. the reaction from the administration at randall when they learned of his role in the sit-ins was to expel them from university, which is probably the low point in the history of vanderbilt. in reaction to that, they brought on a much more progressive chancellor who understood that race was a central question for the country and he understood that the outsider role that athletes play in american society, that if a record an african-american athlete it would signal things are changing but he told the basketball coach roy skinner not only could you recruit a black player, at the time there were none in the sec, that he wanted him to do it. be president of the university of kentucky had issued the same request to adolf roth -- adolphe raab, and he cannot do. but because vanderbilt wanted to, it was an outstanding student, if a ligament of his class and a phenomenal basketball player, didn't mean wallace want to go to vanderbilt. his whole l