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How Don Meredith helped keep Cowboys together amid segregation, strife
Editor’s note: This story is an excerpt from the new book Dandy Don Meredith — The First Dallas Cowboy, by News staff writer Dave Lieber. You can’t recount the early history of the Dallas Cowboys without examining a contentious and embarrassing issue that …