Anyone who saw Jerry LeVias play in the 1960s as a lightning-quick receiver and return man for SMU can recount his spectacular plays from memory. What is truly unforgettable, and should never be ...

HOUSTON — It's a trick play which, more than 50 years later, has one man still guessing. His name? Jerry LeVias. Best known for being the first Black football player in the old Southwest Conference ...

The racial slur didn’t fall on virgin ears. The accompanying spray of spit in the face was nothing new to Jerry LeVias, either. His introduction to that particular form of humiliation came by way of ...

DALLAS — Decades after Jerry LeVias broke the color barrier in the Southwest Conference, the fight for race equality continues in the U.S. “Who would have thought, 50, 55 years later, we’ll still be ...

One afternoon at his home in Houston, Jerry LeVias received an email out of the blue. The email led to a phone call, and now here LeVias is, deep in conversation about a moment lost in time. Speaking ...

If Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., enjoyed college football, he kept it to himself. It is quite possible that he couldn't bring himself to cheer for the state universities in his native Georgia or his ...

There was the day Martin Luther King shook his hand and advised patience and dignity. ''Always keep your emotions in check,'' he told him. At the time, Jerry Levias was living a life of isolation at ...