FS Southwest Ends Black History Month by Honoring SMU Legend Jerry LeVias

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* Distinguished Panel Commemorates Integration of College Football in Southwest

* Event Webcast Live on FoxSportsSouthwest.com

* "Under the Lights" Television Special to Premier in March

Fox Sports Southwest closed out Black History Month on Monday with a live webcast of a compelling Town Hall Forum at Southern Methodist University to honor the legacy of SMU star wide receiver Jerry LeVias, the first black scholarship athlete in the Southwest Conference.

Media coverage included the Dallas Morning News, SMU Daily Campus, and others. 

The network joined forces with new FSN collegiate partner Conference USA, the Dallas Morning News and presenting sponsor McDonald's to host a town hall discussion on the social significance of LeVias breaking the SWC color barrier in 1966.  

Over 200 SMU students, athletes, alumni, community leaders and administrators from Conference USA and the Big 12 Conference gathered to participate in the interactive forum webcast live on FoxSportsSouthwest.com.

FOX Sports Southwest assembled a distinguished panel of former and current SMU players, coaches, civic leaders and local media to discuss LeVias’ ground-breaking feat in 1966 and changes that have occurred in race relations since then.

The Forum included a special showing of FOX SportsSouthwest's award-winning "Jerry LeVias: A Marked Man" documentary chronicling LeVias’ struggles to integrate college football in the Southwest during an era of racial turbulence.

A lively and impactful Forum discussion  moderated by FOX Sports Southwest announcer and SMU alum Dana Larson highlighted the evening.

The Town Hall Forum will be highlighted in an upcoming  "Under The Lights" episode scheduled to air on FOX Sports Southwest this month.

FOX Sports Southwest also is working with McDonald's to fund a Black History Month Jerry LeVias scholarship.