Abstract
From the 1970 USC-Alabama football game has emerged some cringe-worthy myths, dubious interpretations, and bald-faced inaccuracies, all of which have coalesced over the years to create a legend, the persistence of which reveals an ongoing conflict over the memory of the Civil Rights movement. The legend of the game and its consequences reflect a populist consensus that is remarkably immune to scholarly correction. The willingness of so many to find comfort in the legend and its attendant myths reveals their unease in accepting the legacy of Jim Crow discrimination and the direct action, mostly by black Americans, necessary to render it unamerican and unconstitutional. This is a story not about what happened in Birmingham in September 1970, but about how and why so many want to think about what happened in a specific way.
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