Letter: Don’t forget, Democrats were backers of segregation - Gainesville Times

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Letter: Don’t forget, Democrats were backers of segregation

A figure is hanged in effigy in front of Howell domitory on the Georgia Tech campus Dec. 2, 1955, after Gov. Marvin Griffin requested that the Board of Regents ban interracial athletic games. Words on the dormitory, partially concealed by the tree, read, 'Ha Griffin.' Later in the evening some 2,000 Tech students gathered on Tech's campus to protest the governor's request. The students than staged a mass protest march downtown. (AP Photo/Charles Pugh/AJC staff) - photo by Associated Press

09302017 GRIFFIN PROTEST — A figure is hanged in effigy in front of Howell domitory on the Georgia Tech campus Dec. 2, 1955, after Gov. Marvin Griffin requested that the Board of Regents ban interracial athletic games. Words on the dormitory, partially concealed by the tree, read, 'Ha Griffin.' Later in the evening some 2,000 Tech students gathered on Tech's campus to protest the governor's request. The students than staged a mass protest march downtown. (AP Photo/Charles Pugh/AJC staff) - photo by Associated Press

In 1955, Georgia Tech accepted an invitation to play in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans on Jan. 1, 1956 against Pittsburgh. Immediately, a problem arose: Pittsburgh’s fullback was black.