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Bill Russell, the center who won 11 National Basketball Association championships in 13 years as a player and player-coach for the Boston Celtics, died Sunday after a long illness.
Russell was also a civil rights icon, boycotting a 1961 exhibition game to shed light on discrimination and leading Mississippi’s first-ever integrated basketball camp in the wake of the Medgar Evers assassination. He was also the league’s first Black coach.
His activism was recognized with his receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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