Georgia Tech: The Sugar Bowl Riot
A riot in the Deep South, in 1955, in favour of playing an integrated game.
Listen to this place’s story in Peplos.
How the story begins
On the night of 2 December 1955, about two thousand students from the college around this stadium lit a bonfire in Peters Park. They hung the governor in effigy from a light post in Little Five Points, marched on the state Capitol, and by 1:30 in the morning stood at his mansion. That day Governor Marvin Griffin had wired the state's Board of Regents to keep Georgia teams out of integrated games.
The rest is in the app. Peplos plays the full story when you reach the place. You can also listen ahead of time.
Visiting
Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field, called Grant Field in 1955, on the Georgia Tech campus. See it from outside, on Bobby Dodd Way.
Sources
- Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine: The Big Moment, Shelley Wunder-Smith
- Pitt Magazine: Bobby Grier
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Georgia Tech-Pitt football game once made history
- University of Georgia Libraries: The Georgia Tech-Pittsburgh Sugar Bowl Controversy
- Sugar Bowl: How Georgia Tech and Pittsburgh met
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Regents approve Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field, 2023
- Wikipedia: 1956 Sugar Bowl
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