This leg of the trip took two days by car. But the pilgrimage, to the home of longtime University of Texas-El Paso coach Don (The Bear) Haskins, was well worth it. This turned out to be the final season on the bench for Haskins, the man who prosecuted what has been called college basketball’s Brown v. Board of Education—the 1966 NCAA title game in which UTEP, then Texas Western, used five black starters to beat a heavily favored, all-white Kentucky team.

I arrived in El Paso with a number of preconceived notions in tow, about both Haskins and history. Not all of them survived the visit.

Here’s Rich Clarkson’s classic shot of the Kentucky bench in the aftermath of Texas Western’s victory.

To view more of Rich’s vintage images from that game, click here.

TWELVE: WHITERIVER, ARIZONA

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