Game Changer
John McLendon and the Secret Game

More than a basketball book – Game Changer is an exceptional anti-racism tale. Game Changer by John Coy is one of the best books I’ve ever read to my grandchildren. It talks about the first time the white Basketball team played an played an all black team in the south. In 1944, interracial competiti......more

It might seem like no big deal when two basketball teams met to play a game in 1944. But the year during which the game was played and the secrecy under which it occurred on a basketball court in North Carolina gives some hint of its significance. When the white players from Duke were trounced by th......more

Game Changer, written by John Coy and illustrated by Randy DuBurke, is an amazing nonfiction picture book that tells the story of a secret basketball game that took place in Durham, North Carolina in 1944. The game was played between the all-white men's basketball team from Duke University and the a......more

" Nineteen years before Dr. King's " I Have a Dream" Speech and three years before Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major League Baseball, black players and white pliers worked together as teammates in an illegal game in segregated North Carolina"-- Simply powerful history! I didn't know that......more

A sports picture book, but way more than that. In 1944, all-white Duke University Medical School basketball team played a secret game against the North Carolina College of Negroes basketball team. The men on these teams had, in most cases, not been that close in proximity to a person of another race......more