Oakland school community remembers Bill Russell, says his generosity will continue well into the future
OAKLAND – Held up by several McClymonds students a little before sunset, a banner with Bill Russell’s many accomplishments was both expansive and far too short to list all the basketball legend had done.
McClymonds paid tribute to Russell before the school’s season-opening football game Friday night against Bellarmine, a game the home team dramatically won in overtime.“There’s a lot of great people who came out of McClymonds high school,” said Peters, himself an alum of the school. “But for him to win all the championships, and then to be the first African-American coach in the NBA is huge for the area.”He was at the forefront of the Civil Rights movement. He won two NCAA championships at USF.
“Bill saw the complete and holistic view,” said Bill Patterson, who had been close with Russell since the two met when Russell was a young man in Oakland. “He could see all the improprieties in the things that took us back. The reason he was so effective was because he was moving in different segments, bringing people together from those segments and exerting leadership to give national attention to the problem.
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