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The National Football League remained virtually all white when Will joined the Bears in the summer of 1959 for pre-season training and games. The league had formally banned Black players from 1934 to 1945. Will wasn’t Michigan’s first Black player in the league; Eddie Macon, a running back drafted in 1952, preceded Will by five years. Still, the league discouraged this, maintaining as best it could a color line. More
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