Interviewed in Pittsburgh, PA by John Behee. Dan Kean, who spent two years at Fiske University in Nashville before coming to U-M, was invited to try out for the varsity tennis team by coach John Johnstone after winning a campus tournament, discusses his motivations for coming to U-M, family background, the African-American tennis circuit, other black Big Ten tennis players from the 1920s and 1930s. Talks about intramural basketball and the conference ban on black varsity basketball and generally on the nature of prejudice; discusses his perspectives on BAM and militant protest, relations with his tennis teammates and the taboo against discussion of race.
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