Setting a Precedent

ID: 3238 ~ Source: Ritcherson, Lewis, interviewed by Greg Bond and Troy Reeves, May 2, 2012. UW-Madison Oral History Program, Madison, Wisconsin. Access full interview here.
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Lewis Ritcherson discusses the importance of his being the first Black coach at UW-Madison for later generations.

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By Maria Petrolia
Lewis “Les” Ritcherson, born in Hillsboro, Texas in 1926, was the first African American to coach at the University of Wisconsin and the second African American football coach in the Big Ten.…