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Chester Pierce broke racial barriers when, in 1947, he joined his Harvard football team to play against the University of Virginia. At that time, black people were not allowed to sit at lunch counters, they had to use separate entrances, and they weren't allowed to play college football against white players. Chester's team didn't care about those laws. Amid dropped jaws, jeering, and booing, Chester played, and his teammates followed his lead.

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Gloria Respress-Churchwell is an experienced children's author who specializes in sharing nonfiction stories. After receiving her master's degree from Simmons University in literature and writing for children, she wrote Robert Churchwell, which is part of Churchwell's permanent collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. She currently resides with her husband and children in New England. Ron Butler is a Los Angeles based actor and voice artist with over a hundred film and television credits, which include playing everything from brooding doctors to screwball hipsters. A member of the Atlantic Theater Company, he won an Independent Filmmaker Project Award for his work in the HBO film Everyday People. He works regularly as a commercial and animation voiceover artist and has narrated a wide variety of audiobooks.

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