Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he was a 'curious kid' as he discussed a 1957 photo that surfaced this week, showing him among a group of white students at a school desegregation protest.
Lorenzo Reyes is back with his picks for Sunday's slate of games in NFL Week 12.Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he was a"curious kid" as he discussed a 1957 photo that surfaced this week, showing him among a group of white students trying to block Black students from entering his North Little Rock High School during a desegregation effort.
In the resurfaced Associated Press photo, Jones, who was 14 at the time, is pictured wearing a striped shirt a few rows back on the school steps. Jones' appearance in the photo was mentioned prominently inafter the Cowboys' victory"I didn't know at the time the monumental event that was going on, and I'm sure glad that we're a long way from that," Jones, 80, said of the incident that occurred when he was a sophomore."I am.
The protest occurred in the same month as a highly publicized incident at nearby Little Rock Central, when then President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to the Arkansas capital to make sure that nine Black students could enter that school.
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