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Public League ref "Sweet" Charlie Brown keeps the game moving after a turnover on Jan. 19, 2000. (PHIL VELASQUEZ, PHIL VELASQUEZ / CHICAGO TRIBUNE)If statues honoring the former DuSable High School’ s most revered alumni were erected in front of 4900 S. Wabash Ave.,“ Sweet” Charlie Brown would be standing in bronze alongside Nat King Cole, Mayor Harold Washington and Sweetwater Clifton, the first Black player to sign a contract to play in the NBA. Brown was a star on the DuSable team that lost to Mount Vernon in the...
Originally published at Tribune News Service