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Lifelong Frog
This former cheerleader broke barriers at TCU. Now he is coming back to share his story
Story by Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-TelegramRon Hurdle had just won a spot on TCU’s cheerleading team in 1969 and came back to his dorm room to celebrate with friends.
He knew something was wrong as his roommate answered the phone and quickly hung up. The next time it rang Hurdle answered, and a voice on the other end said: “You will never cheer for me” and “We are coming to get you” with racial slurs mixed in.
Hurdle and a few friends stayed in his dorm room, prepared for people to come for him. They never showed up but it showed how the news of a Black cheerleader was spreading on campus and even outside of it.
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