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Ernie barnes the tunesmith12/17/2023 His football career ended when he fractured his right foot in 1965, while playing an exhibition game for the Canadian Football League. CareerĮrnie Barnes began his football career in 1959 with the Baltimore Colts, then played for the New York Titans, the San Diego Chargers and the Denver Broncos. He attended the all-Black North Carolina College at Durham, across the street from Hillside, where he majored in art on a full athletic scholarship. He would have liked to attend nearby Duke or the University of North Carolina, but Black students were not admitted to either school in 1956. In 1956, Barnes graduated from Hillside and was offered more than two dozen athletic scholarships. With the teacher’s encouragement, Barnes became the captain of the football team at Hillside High School and the state champion in the shot put. A masonry teacher, who was also the weightlifting coach at his high school, discovered Barnes secluding himself with his sketchbook and encouraged him to train and participate in sports. The books formed the basis of his art education, during a time in the South when he was not allowed to enter museums in North Carolina.īarnes was a shy child, who preferred to draw in his sketchbook while other students were playing sports. Fuller was a member of the Durham Board of Education and encouraged young Barnes to read books on art when he accompanied his mother to work at the Fuller home. His father was a shipping clerk and his mother a housekeeper for attorney Frank L. Ernest Barnes was born in Durham, North Carolina in 1938.
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