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The 1969 University of Wyoming football team, the season of the Black 14.

OCT 17 1969 · LARAMIE, WYOMING

Fourteen players
took a stand.
It cost them everything.

On the brink of a national championship, fourteen Black football players at the University of Wyoming planned a silent protest. Their coach dismissed all of them in a single morning.

Enter the museum Support the mission

They asked only to wear a black armband. For that, they lost their team, their scholarships, and the futures they had earned. This is the museum of what they did with what was left.

The Museum · Six Halls

Walk it the way it happened.

  1. 01 The World They Walked Into Wyoming, 1969. A title within reach.
  2. 02 The Armbands A protest the coach would never allow.
  3. 03 Dismissed Fourteen scholarships, gone in a morning.
  4. 04 Fourteen Lives What the stand cost each man.
  5. 05 The Long Road to Healing Fifty years to reconciliation.
  6. 06 Your Part in the Story The work they ask you to carry.

Begin in Hall One

The Fourteen

Fourteen men. One stand.

Say their names. Each lost his scholarship on the same October morning — and spent a lifetime carrying what followed.

The Black 14 trophy — a raised fist engraved with all fourteen names and the year 1969.
The Black 14 memorial, all fourteen names beneath a raised fist.
  1. 01 Mel Hamilton
  2. 02 Joe Williams
  3. 03 Ted Williams
  4. 04 Tony McGee
  5. 05 Willie Hysaw
  6. 06 John Griffin
  7. 07 Earl Lee
  8. 08 Don Meadows
  9. 09 Ivie Moore
  10. 10 Tony Gibson
  11. 11 Jerry Berry
  12. 12 Jim Isaac
  13. 13 Lionel Grimes
  14. 14 Ron Hill

Healing Hearts · Feeding Souls

Their stand became a mission. Carry it forward.

Today the Black 14 Philanthropy educates, feeds, and serves communities in need — more than a million pounds of food, and counting. A monthly gift keeps it moving.

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