OPINION:
President Trump’s pressure on the Commanders to revert to being the Redskins recalls the time more than six decades ago that the team was the last in the NFL without a Black player (“Trump likes renaming people, places and things. He’s not the first to deploy that perk of power,” Web, July 22).
Then, the Kennedy administration reminded team owner George Preston Marshall — who had adamantly refused to employ any African Americans — that if he wanted his team to play at a stadium built on federal land, the team needed to integrate.
In the terminology of the day, Marshall blinked, and in 1962, the Redskins fielded their first African-American players.
PAUL L. NEWMAN
Merion Station, Pennsylvania
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