to be black in america when you're big in a job and money you have to owe yourself treats just to unmess your mind. when i hit it big, i realized if i don't bring a woman into the nightclub, i'm not leaving with one. that was the law here. so i had certain things set up before it happened. i knew i was going somewhere. i didn't know if it was sports. i knew it wouldn't be sports. i had been around entertainers. >> wait, wait, you knew it wouldn't be sports. you were a celebrated, admired track athlete. that had a lot of future to it, and you walked away from that as well as. >> well, we had dual school systems in st. louis. black school and white school. black track meets and white track meets. i went to the black track meets and ran the mile faster than anybody that year on the planet. i didn't get credit for it. so what do i do? i go by to the naacp and started up a march. that day it scared them white folks so bad. they arrested me and i get home three white men sitting in my house. and my mother all upset. and so that three days later , a white school made one call. i think in 30 min