Jan. 16, 1959 Credit: Wikipedia The Minneapolis Lakers met the Cincinnati Royals in an NBA game before a crowd in Charleston, West Virginia. Local fans were eager to see their hometown basketball hero, “Hot Rod” Hundley, play alongside rookie phenom Elgin Baylor, but Baylor sat out to protest racism he and other Black players had experienced the night before. “The first thing I said was I was really hurt by that,” he recalled. “I thought about it and I said, ‘I’m not going out there. We’re not like animals in the circus or something and then go out there and put a show on for them.’” After arriving in Charleston, a local hotel had denied rooms to him and the two other Bla
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