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In 1961, Bill and his Black teammates on the Celtics, including Sam Jones, Tom “Satch” Sanders, and K. C. Jones boycotted an NBA exhibition game in Lexington, Ky., after Sam and Satch were refused service at the cafe of the hotel where the team was staying.
After the assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963, Bill traveled to Mississippi to help Charles Evers open the first integrated basketball camp.
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