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Victoria Jackson

SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
1-12-18

Sports Historian Explains Why She Wrote that the NCAA is the Modern Jim Crow

Victoria Jackson’s claim appeared in an explosive op-ed for the Los Angeles Times.

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Victoria Jackson

Sports Historian Explains Why She Wrote that the NCAA is the Modern Jim Crow