Johnny Rodgers, Nebraska Heisman Trophy winner 1972, and "Most Valuable Player in Big 8 History" according to the Sportswriters Association, recently honored 73-year-old pioneer Nebraska black athlete Marion Hudson with a Martin Luther King "I Have a Dream" award. Hudson was the first black student at his alma mater, Dana College, in Blair, Nebraska, where he set two records that still stand -- 50-plus years later. Rodgers' talks about the importance of honoring "local" black heroes during Black History Month. A fellow star Nebraska athlete from the 1950s, George Stevens, reminisces with Hudson about a time they traveled to Texas together in 1954 and Hudson was refused seating in the dining room of a Wichita, Kansas restaurant. Lastly, the admissions director at the nursing home where Hudson now lives, who was instrumental in him receiving this award, shares Rodgers' sentiment that black communities need to hold up the accomplishments of local, often unsung, heroes -- like Marion Hudson.

Johnny Rodgers, Nebraska Heisman Trophy winner 1972, and "Most Valuable Player in Big 8 History" according to the Sportswriters Association, recently honored 73-year-old pioneer Nebraska black athlete Marion Hudson with a Martin Luther King "I Have a Dream" award. Hudson was the first black student at his alma mater, Dana College, in Blair, Nebraska, where he set two records that still stand -- 50-plus years later. Rodgers' talks about the importance of honoring "local" black heroes during Black History Month. A fellow star Nebraska athlete from the 1950s, George Stevens, reminisces with Hudson about a time they traveled to Texas together in 1954 and Hudson was refused seating in the dining room of a Wichita, Kansas restaurant. Lastly, the admissions director at the nursing home where Hudson now lives, who was instrumental in him receiving this award, shares Rodgers' sentiment that black communities need to hold up the accomplishments of local, often unsung, heroes -- like Marion Hudson.