Larry Shears: A Mobile sports star lifts back the curtain of segregation
By Mark Inabinett | minabinett@al.com
Published August 10, 2013, 10:01:02 AM
(http://media.al.com/sports_impact/photo/larry-shears-2jpg-b929a4e5a49bebab.jpg)If he were a high school football player today, Larry Shears might be trying to decide whether he wanted to go to Alabama or Auburn after leading his high school team to the state championship. But because the state championship he and his Mobile County Training School teammates won in 1966 was the Alabama Interscholastic Athletic Association crown, Shears, even as a star running back and defensive back, didn't have that option.
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