Herman Cunningham recounts playing on the basketball team during the 1940s at Winchester High School, a segregated school for African Americans in Monroe, North Carolina. Mr. Cunningham describes how the school partially burned down in the 1930s and the school's sports teams were reorganized during the 1940s. Topics discussed include the popularity of Winchester's basketball, football, and baseball teams in the larger community; Mr. Cunningham's service in World War II and then attending college on the GI Bill; and school discipline.
