Episode 107: Festus High School Football (Part 2)

Guest: Antonio Pinkston 

Bingham interviews another member of the Festus High School Football Team who is in his junior year and was an all conference and all district team selection his sophomore year. Festus, Missouri is home of the Festus Tigers, a place where the likes of the illustrious Ralph B. Tynes, School Superintendent who integrated the Negro school, Douglass Cooperative High School and Festus Senior High School, the White school, the first opportunity he got in 1956.  Dewhitt’s second guest is an amazing young man, Antonio Pinkston. Bingham and Pinkston discuss the following:

• Festus High School
• Race relations at FHS
• Family life
• College and Academics
• The responsibilities of a defensive end 
• Ralph B. Tynes
• Current Festus African American teachers
• The correlation between sports and life
• Intellectual, physical, and social development as a result of sports
• The Festus school teachers who were forerunners to the current teachers: Mr. and Mrs. Adam McCullough, Margaret Gill, and Bernice Thompson are mentioned
• Coach A.J. Ofodile
• Coach Tony Kinder
• Tiffany Barnes Therrell
• AP’s favorite constitutional right
• AP’s favorite social justice advocate
• The importance of academics

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