Patrick Semansky | New Orleans Photographer

Alden Foster
"Winning eases tension over black coach at Louisiana high school" (2008)

Excerpt from accompanying story by Associated Press writer Michael Kunzelman:

"Alden Foster observed [the Amite High School football team's] rites as a player two decades ago, but his return this season shattered one of the team's most enduring legacies: No black man had ever been head coach of the Warriors before Foster won a court fight that gave him the job in March."

Audio by Michael Kunzelman

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May - December 2007, in St. Bernard Parish, La.

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Ben Williams
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High School Rodeo
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George Barisich
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Alden Foster
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A small town's first black head football coach--by court order.

Thomas Mack
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Lisa Doucet
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Sidney and Joe Navis
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