Description: “RACE” Chronicles the journey of Dolphus Stroud blazing a path for black athletes and scholars from Colorado Springs to Boston.
I’m Frank Shines , founder of the Stroud Leadership Academy (SLA) and the grandson of Tandy Stroud , a WWII Army veteran, publisher, real-estate developer and statistician.
It was not until the summer of my sophomore year at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs that I began to understand the pioneering achievements of Tandy and his ten siblinngs — first generation out of slavery. Their father, KD Stroud, was born and raised on a Texas slave plantation in Limestone County owned by the brothers Logan Stroud and Sampson Mandred Stroud . Read more... With the aid of his grandfather and slaveowner (Sampson), KD Stroud escaped the discrimination and racial violence of post-C
Tim Reid, working with Frank Shines and other Stroud family members, will produce a captivating documentary to record the history of heartbreaking struggles and trailblazing achievements of the Stroud family.