Texas' Black high school football history on show at Bryan Museum's 'Thursday Night Lights' exhibit

Besides playing their games earlier in the week — Friday nights being reserved for the white teams who often shared district facilities with their Black counterparts — the PVIL schools enjoyed a fraction of the funding granted to white schools and were often forced to make do with hand-me-down equipment.

And there’s a lot more where this came from. The seeds of Hurd’s book were planted in 2007, when he attended the PVIL Coaches Association’s annual Hall of Fame banquet and met Robert Brown, the organization’s director. Some items in “Thursday Night Lights” were donated by the Bell County Museum and Galveston’s Old Cultural Center, but the bulk of the collection belongs to Brown, whom Hurd says would love to find it a permanent home.

“The NFL at that time still wasn’t happily taking Black college players or Black players in general, but the AFL is trying to compete with the NFL,” he explains. “They see this talent source that the NFL is ignoring, and they’re like, ‘Yeah, we can do this.'”But even reaching the pinnacle of the sport, these players could find their opportunities limited. In 1968, the Oakland Raiders made Eldridge Dickey, out of Houston’s Booker T.

Texas public schools began integrating in the mid-’60s, a contentious process that lasted roughly four years. Urban schools mostly desegregated first; small-town and rural schools took longer. Gradually, the PVIL was absorbed into the white-run University Interscholastic League, a process Hurd calls “more a hostile takeover” than a merger. Ultimately, all but a few Black schools shut down, leaving many Black coaches out of a job.

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