Athletics
UTEP was the first college in the American South to integrate its intercollegiate sports programs. This breakthrough was made in the 1950s. When Don Haskins became basketball coach in 1961, he aggressively recruited black players. In 1966, Haskins' Miners won the NCAA Basketball championship, defeating an all-white Kentucky team in the final game.
This success story was retold in Haskins' autobiography Glory Road (2005), and in the 2006 movie Glory Road.
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