Dean Smith

Coach

In 1966, the year Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. turned his attention away from the South to organize civil rights marches in Chicago, an unassuming figure emerged as a beacon for integration in Chapel Hill. Coach Dean Smith contributed as much to his community as he did while coaching the Tar Heels to 11 Final Fours and two national championships. Smith, who had been head basketball coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for five years, fueled desegregation efforts in the state when he recruited New York native Charles Scott as the school's first African American... Read Full Bio