He Was initially turned away at the door by a policeman who said, no blacks are allowed to enter.

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By now, most customers pretty much know what to expect when they enter through the heavy glass door, small green letters hanging overhead on the building exterior.

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Decades later, segregation still ruled America, and when Sports Illustrated invited Winkfield to a reception at the Brown Hotel in Louisville in 1961, he was told he couldn't enter by the front door.

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