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John Thompson


Born
in Washington, DC, The United States
September 02, 1941

Died
August 30, 2020

Genre
Memoir


John Robert Thompson Jr. (September 2, 1941 – August 30, 2020) was an American college basketball coach for the Georgetown Hoyas men's team. He became the first African-American head coach to win a major collegiate championship in basketball when he led the Hoyas to the NCAA Division I national championship in 1984. Thompson was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.

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“quote by Mahatma Gandhi that affected me deeply: “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
― John Thompson, I Came As a Shadow: An Autobiography
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“When people complain about affirmative action, I respond that there’s nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequals.”
― John Thompson, I Came As a Shadow: An Autobiography
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