Henderson, Russell J. “The 1963 Mississippi State University Basketball Controversy and the Repeal of the Unwritten..”
Journal of Southern History, vol. 63, no. 4, Nov. 1997, p. 827-854. EBSCOhost, doi:10.2307/2211721.
Presents information on the racial integration of athletics as part of the civil rights movement which revealed both black efforts for social change and white resistance and focusing on the `unwritten law' against integrated collegiate athletics in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Georgia. Information on Jackie Robinson who broke professional baseball color barrier in 1947; Details on Jones County Junior College which accepted a bid to play against an integrated football team.