Former Alabama A&M coach gives perspective to hoops during Civil Rights era
Dan Klores' initial idea was to do for basketball what famed filmmaker Ken Burns did for the Civil War and baseball.
"I was going to make the quintessential film on the history of basketball, starting with James Naismith and going right on up to the present day,'' said Klores, an acclaimed New York-based producer-director whose documentary topics included boxer Emile Griffith.
That was the plan.
"Then I got caught up in the forgotten story of basketball at the HBCUs - Historically Black Colleges and Universities - and how all that tied in with the Civil Rights Movement in the '60s, and that's when everything changed,'' said Klores
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