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Today, the thought of all-white teams in any sport seems ridiculous. But at the start of the 1960s there were only a few pockets where progress it could be said was being made.

Chris Burford, a white end out of Stanford University, and Abner Haynes, a black man from the University of North Texas, both found themselves members of the Dallas Texans football team in 1960.

Read more: http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/article-2/The-Right-Kind-of-Virtue/e15204da-b4d7-459f-a15f-cd4683f6b292

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