Charlie Floyd was a track coach at a high school in Mississippi. He is black and worked at a mostly black high school. He ran a private track training program at the school and invited white students from private schools to participate. He said that when the president of the school board found out, the president told him "he did not — that they did not want them white kids over there at [the high school]. Coach, you know better than that" and that the president made statements to others to the effect that "Caucasian students had no business at [the high school's] track facilities" and that "Floyd had no business trying to bring African American and Caucasian students together with the summer program." Floyd later was fired.
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