Beyond the Cotton Field: How “Racist” Was Pre-civil-rights-era America, Really?
Grant was a successful black man in the U.S. almost 100 years before the civil-rights era or affirmative action’s birth
By Selwyn Duke —— Bio and Archives--November 4, 2025
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The story of George Franklin Grant, a dentist, academic and recreational golfer, is interesting. This isn’t just because he, a Harvard professor, invented a wood-composite golf tee in 1899. It’s that under many Americans’ conception of history, he shouldn’t even have existed. You see, Grant was a successful black man in the U.S. almost 100 years before the civil-rights era or affirmative action’s birth.
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