REMEMBER THE TITANS during Reconstruction

WI during Reconstruction, there were in certain Southern states racially integrated schools & sports teams (in a similar way as how in certain small areas of the South there were integrated militias of freedmen & Republican whites) along the lines of what was seen in REMEMBER THE TITANS ? Could such racial integration at this grassroots level have substantially undermined white supremacy during the post-CW period ?
 
Did a bit of checking on wikipedia, and came across the following:

Wikipedia (Emphasis Added)
It was not until after the Civil War and under Reconstruction governments, that the coalition of black and white Republicans in state legislatures established universal public education in the South ... Although in some states, education was first established as integrated, after white Democrats regained political power in the 1870s, they imposed segregation on all schools, and later on all public facilities.

So, going off that you would need a longer Reconstruction period and/or some other means of avoiding segregation. Even then, expect private schooling to remain the norm in the South; considering the fact that public schooling didn't exist in the South pre-reconstruction there's a lot more infrastructure to support private schooling than in the South of the 1950's-70's.

Post-reconstruction governments also left public schools badly underfunded in OTL when they were segregated; imagine how little funding they'll end up with if they're integrated.
 
Good Movie but not totaly acurate as TC Williams was not the first school integrated in VA. The school I went to was integrated well before this as I went there in 1970-71. The movie spans 1971-72 school year.
Also Hopkinsville Ky had merged before the 65 football season in which it one its first of two back to back State Championships. The unigue thing about TC Williams was it had a Black Headcoach.

Side note my school was almost undefeated the 71 football season also we only needed to avoid losing those 9 games and would have been 10-0.
 
Tough Sell

Integrated schools lasting beyond Reconstruction would definitely require imposition, perhaps in state constitutions, and a very extended (generations) military occupation to enforce it. I am not sure that the Radicals, in their wildest dreams, could manage that.

I am also pretty sure that, when the Great Migration (of freed slaves to the industrial North) began, the communities in the North would not welcome integrated society with open arms. :(
 
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