Study: Wendell Scott's NASCAR driving microcosm of antiracism work today
Monday, April 4, 2016 - 15:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Professional stock car driver Wendell Scott competed throughout the segregated Jim Crow South during the tense days of the civil rights movement. His fight to move about the racetrack on his own terms is a microcosm of today's continued struggle for equal rights, according to a new study from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.