Temple plays critical role for LSU Tigers (The Lafayette Daily Advertiser)

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    Some people wanted him dead. He was the Jackie Robinson of LSU basketball, and they were segregationists. "If you shoot the ball, we'll shoot you," one anonymous hater warned Collis Temple Jr., who broke the color line in 1971 as LSU's first African-American basketball player.

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