Documentary Film Recalls 'Secret" Duke-NCCU Basketball Game

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

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As part of the forthcoming documentary film, "Durham: A Self-Portrait," crews have been filming a re-enactment of the "secret" 1944 interracial basketball game that took place between the varsity team from North Carolina College for Negroes (now North Carolina Central University), and a team of WWII Navy veterans from Duke medical center.  In the photo at left, white players prepare to leave campus for the game.Above, the game tips off. The film, sponsored by the Southern Documentary Fund, is expected to premiere this fall at the Carolina Theater. (Photos by Cabell Smith and Steven Channing)