Remember the Titans

Caleb Leitch

Remember the Titans

June 20, 2006

Prof Clavin

Remember the Titans was set in 1971 but integration first started to become a problem in the 1950’s; a lot of riots started breaking out between white supremacists and black reformers because of this integration. Although, Remember the Titans did not show much of the hand-to-hand conformation between these groups, there was much going on at this time in the United States.

One group of football players, and some of their coaches, showed the United States that races could be integrated. We do not need to have the constant fighting between the black reformers and the white supremists. Some of the people are ready to be intergraded, but the majority of whites in the southern states did not approve of this. These southern people mostly result to violence when they see this happening.

Aaron Boone, head coach of the Titans, was black; he had deserved a head coach position for four years, at another school. This job was always given to a lazy white guy, only because he was white. When the old Titan team heard that were going to have a black coach, they were fearful that they were going to loose there positions on the team. What they did not know is that their new coach, unlike others, did not play favorites because of their color. He picked the players according to their athletic abilities and how they could get along with other players and other races of the team.

In 1971, during Coach Boone’s football camp, he tried make the players get along and not worry about color. By the end of the week, all but one were getting along fine. This helped these teens excel far above there pers because at one time or another, all the schools are going to be integrated. Coach Boone also took these football players