DID COACH BOONE HAVE A NEGATIVE OR POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE SOCIETY OF ALEXANDRIA?

When asked whether Coach Herman Boone had a positive impact on the structure of society in Alexandria, which was all about racism and hatred between black people and white people, I say Coach Boone was the foundation of peace in Alexandria. In fact, what he left was a strong foundation to build on. In 1971, Herman Boone was appointed coach for the T.C. Williams high school football team after all schools, which were separated into schools for black people and schools for white people, were merged into one high school. (Resurgence). At the time, tensions between black people and white people were high in the city of Alexandria and a merger of schools, made for specific races into one school, caused more uproars. Football played an important role in the society of Alexandria. If the coach made the team a winning team, the coach was a respected and honored man. Coach Boone, being a person of the black race, was despised by all whites in the city, in the school he came to, in the managemen...