'Mexicans Don’t Play Basketball'

In 1939, a Mexican-American high school basketball team shocked the world. Basketball, at the time, was considered a white man's game. Until Lanier High School, with their all Mexican-American basketball team, won the 1939 San Antonio city championship. But at the moment of their greatest triumph, things suddenly took a turn for this worse. This episode originally aired in 2016. Follow us on TikTok and YouTube.  Subscribe to our newsletter by going to the top of our homepage.