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July 22,2014 ^portlanh (Obstruer Sharing Memories with Freeman Williams Basketball great back on campus to preview film about his life A recent screening o f "Inner City o f Champions" took place on the Portland State University campus and allowed Viking fans, boosters, teammates, athletes and staff to ex press their affection for legendary PSU basketball star Freeman Will iams. The movie tells the story o f Wil liams and his teammate Dwayne Polee at Manual Arts High School in south central Los Angeles where they were able to put aside inner- city adversities and overcome the obstacles o f drugs, abuse, family poverty and violence. More impor tantly, years later after careers in the NBA, they return to become coach and role models at the very same high school where their hoop dreams began. in 1978. He went on to play six sea sons in the NBA for the San Diego Clippers, Atlanta Hawks, Utah Jazz and Washington Bullets. Inner City o f Champions won the Los Angeles Underground Film Festival Award last year. Williams and movie creator and producer Frederick Hawthorne at tended the July 15 screening that was viewed by some 200 people at Hoffmann Hall. After many handshakes and pho tos, the film was screened, then Williams and Hawthorne took part in a question-and-answer session that remembered Freeman's 81 -point game (official Howard Mayo who worked that game was also in atten dance and spoke) among other ca reer highlights at Portland State and throughout his career. Freeman Williams played bas ketball at Portland State from 1974- 78. He scored 3,249 points in his caree r - second only to Pete Maravich in NCAA history. Will iams was a first team All-American Legendary Portland State University basketball star Freeman Williams returns to the PSU campus for a preview o f “Inner City Champions,” a documentary film about his life in south central Los Angeles. photo by A nthony The Struggle of Black Athletes in Oregon History brought to light in new book O livia O livia T he P ortland O bserver by Portlander Herman L. Brame is taking on sports history in his new book, The Long Ebony Line: The First 100 Years o f African American Athletes in Oregon, Circa 1860 - 1960. Brame got immersed in the subject early this year when he started offering live pre sentations about the early history o f African American football players in Oregon for the Oregon Historical Society. He took his lec tures to the University o f Oregon and Or egon State University, where he discovered that the subject would be useful as a full book that might be available to everyone. Brame hopes that his book and lectures will provide the foundation for a documen tary on the same subject, and said that his target audience are young people and spe cifically teenage youth. He said the graph ics-based book could also provide easy- reading material for adults in search o f the same information. Brame also plans to follow up The Long Ebony Line with a second book that focuses specifically on the 60s and 70s. “The 1960s in particular provided a his torically significant confluence o f the Civil Rights Movement and athletics,” he said, and for this reason he feels like a second book exclusively focusing on the time period could be especially informative. Brame himself was a track and field runner and the University o f Oregon during the 60s, and graduated from Jefferson High School in Portland. The Long Ebony Line takes us through the great Black athletes o f Oregon, and shows us everything from the lynching o f young M ichael L eighton / T he P ortland O bserver photo by spina column TM An ongoing series of questions and answers about America's natural healing profession. 0 Dr. Billy R. Flowers boxer Alonzo Tucker in 1902 to the appoint ment o f Vera Johnson to the Roosevelt High School team in Portland, as she became Oregon’s first Black female varsity high school athlete in 1959. “Racism in athletics is often countered by the objective measurement o f ability found most often in athletic competition,” said Brame o f these moments in Black athletic history. “Sometimes you benefit from things that were hard won and you don’t even realize it,” he sa id ., “Like a baseball game, staying at a hotel, or joining a team. I wanted people to know. My hope is that young people reading this will be a new vessel for this history and that they’ll carry it forward.” For updates on Bram e’s lectures and news on his book, follow him at Oregonstars.com. Herman L. Brame o f Portland and his new book The Long Ebony Line: The First 1 0 0 Years o f African American Athletes in Oregon, Circa 1 8 6 0 - 1 9 6 0 . THE : When will my children be old enough to benefit from seeing Chiropractor? : Children ofChiropractors o f ten receive their first spinal adjustments the day they are bom. Using special techniques for infants, Chiropractors are able to correct spinal misalignments caused by the traumatic and turning o f childbirth. W hat’s more, w e’re frequently able to alleviate infant problems like colic V u Part 7. CHILDREN & CHIROPRACTIC: Start off early in life for a lifetime of health that often keeps both babies and than an average adult. 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