Until 1961, the same Redskins NFL franchise profiting off the worst slur in sports history, barred Black players and led the way in the establishment of the NFL's 12-year league-wide color line.

In this 1959 season highlight film, the Redskins set the song "Dixie" to game action

In 1959, the same year the all-White Redskins set the song “Dixie” to game action included in the team’s season highlight film and clip seen above, the NFL’s last Jim Crow franchise also changed the last line of “Hail to Redskins!” from “Fight for Old DC!” to “Fight for Dixie!”

In the decade before the Redskins finally ended their Jim Crow roster policy, they resembled a crappy college team.

Watching Black players like Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns relentlessly integrate the endzone of the all-White Redskins, year after year, is hilarious to watch.

The Redskins were the last Jim Crow pro franchise. JFK was in the White House when the Redskins were still all-White and he actually forced them to sign a black player by threatening to lock the Redskins out of their stadium if they didn’t comply. Somehow though, it gets worse ..

When the Redskins finally signed their first Black player in the 1960s, Bobby Mitchell, the team put on an event in his “honor” that included the Redskins Band which opened the festivities with the song “Dixie.” What happened next proved that song selection was no coincidence.

But if Mitchell by then somehow still didnt grasp the Redskins true intention in playing the anthem to White supremacy at an event supposedly to welcome him to the team, when he did not go along with singing “Dixie” initially the Redskins then spelled it out in no uncertain terms

When the Redskins band struck up the song “Dixie,” team owner George Preston Marshall was watching Mitchell to see if he was singing the song as all of his White teammates were. When Marshall saw Mitchell wasnt, the Redskins owner got in Mitchell’s face and insisted that he do so

Mitchell complied, mouthing the words to the rest of the song.

So the same Redskins owner who coined the worst slur in sports history was also the last pro sports team owner to sign a Black player who he then forced to sing the song “Dixie” at a Redskins “welcoming party.”

George Preston Marshall not only was the last pro sports team owner to stop barring Black players, he also was the main reason for the NFL’s league wide color line which lasted 12 years and barred all Blacks from the league - including a UCLA football star named Jackie Robinson

In the somewhat recent, official documentary of the Redskins released by the NFL, the unprecedented, historic Jim Crow policy of Marshall and the Redskins and his creation of the league-wide color line is quite literally not mentioned. The Redskins have also suppressed it.

Marshall’s unprecedented racial discrimination is the subject of two books entirely devoted to the subject. (See below)

The same subject that is not mentioned in the NFL’s official documentary on The history of the Redskins. LOL

https://www.amazon.com/Fight-Old-DC-Integration-Washington/dp/0803299354

https://www.amazon.com/Showdown-JFK-Integration-Washington-Redskins/dp/0807000825

The Redskins gestures involving Marshall besides the ring of honor are utterly irrelevant The memorial obviously was to be torn down next year anyway & none of the Redskins printed documentation on Marshall “removed” ever included a word about his racial discrimination of blacks