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African American Athletes Hall Of Fame of Stockton
P.O. Box 691652
Stockton, CA 95269
ph: 209-406-3192 cell. Lawrence Brice
alt: 2099313914
AAAHOF
Stockton's Greatest Athletes: " Dreams from the past inspire hope for the future."
On August 19, 2011 the great "Coach Ben Parks died". Coach Parks was a teacher and coach at John Marshall Middle school and Edison High school and an inductee in the Black Sports Hall of Fame of Stockton aka African American Athletes Hall of Fame of Stockton. Coach has a long legacy in Stockton going back to the 1950's and he continued that legacy when he moved his family and took a teaching and coaching job at Menlo Athens High School in the Bay Area in 1968. (more information and bio coming). 8/20/2011.
"Halas was sending me a message by saying that," Macon said. "He knew there was going to be a lot of bigotry. ... There were going to be a lot of things I'd have to endure, and I couldn't lash back." He was a pioneer throughout his long-ago football career, as the first African American player at Pacific and the first to play in the Sun Bowl. Along the way, he encountered many of the same racial obstacles as Robinson and other black athletes of that era. The African American Athletes Hall of Fame of Stockton is proud to have Mr. Eddie Macon as a pioneer and role model.
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African American Athletes Hall of Fame of Stockton
African American Athletes Hall Of Fame of Stockton
P.O. Box 691652
Stockton, CA 95269
ph: 209-406-3192 cell. Lawrence Brice
alt: 2099313914
AAAHOF