Interview with Harry N. Sykes, September 28, 2004
Project: Kentucky Sports: African American Athletes Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Harry N. Sykes, who was a very good student of math, gives a broad overview of his family life, the move up north from Mississippi, and his education and basketball scholarship at Kentucky State University. He also talks about his basketball playing career and the transition from ball player to success as a coach and educator. He gives some detail of his business venture with the bowling alley for African Americans, and the move from business to politics and human rights activism.Interview Accession
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African American athletes African Americans--Sports African Americans Race relations Harlem Globetrotters--History Segregation in sports African American basketball coaches Segregation in education--Kentucky Dunbar High School (Lexington, Ky.) Political campaigns--Kentucky Race discrimination--Kentucky Sykes, Harry N., 1927-2012 Sykes, Harry N., 1927-2012--InterviewsInterview Rights
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Sykes, Harry N. Interview by Will Jones. 28 Sep. 2004. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Sykes, H.N. (2004, September 28). Interview by W. Jones. Kentucky Sports: African American Athletes Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Sykes, Harry N., interview by Will Jones. September 28, 2004, Kentucky Sports: African American Athletes Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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