A pedestrian walks by REI’s flagship store in New York, where last year workers formed the company’s first union. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images A pedestrian walks by REI’s flagship store in New York, where last year workers formed the company’s first union. Spencer Platt/Getty
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Sam Cunningham Dies at 71; Fostered Integration on the Football Field
By 1977, Alabama had 17 Black football players on scholarship. Samuel Lewis Cunningham Jr. was born on Aug. 15, 1950, in Santa Barbara, Calif. His father was a railroad worker. His mother, Zoe (Ivory) Cunningham, died when he was young; he was raised by his father and stepmother, Mabel (Crook)