CLEVELAND, Ohio - "He can't eat here," the manager of a roadside stop named The Velvet Dairy said, jerking a thumb toward Wayne Embry, the future general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Embry was the only African-American on the team for the Tecumseh High School Arrows of Springfield, Ohio.
"If he can't eat here, we can't eat here," said Frank Shannon, the coach, whose team was on its way to a tournament at Wittenberg University in the early 1950s.
The players rose as one and left their hamburgers and shakes on the tables.
"Hey! Who's going to pay for all this?