Hey Proof listeners, it's Kevin Pang. This week is the third installment of Best of Proof Award

Season. He like that announcer voice?

We're bringing you some of our favorite proof episodes that just happen to have won some

podcasting awards, yay us.

We'll be back with an all new season in March.

Now we're into the second week of Black History Month and

we're bringing you an episode about the first black owner of a national fast food

franchise in America. Now some of you might remember the name Brady Keys. He was an NFL defensive bag

mostly for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 60s, but Brady Keys also made his

mark promoting black franchise business ownership in black neighborhoods.

This is the second episode of proof that Pulitzer Prize winner Mars Shatalan produced for our show.

Here's You're a good man, Brady Keys, and it's hosted by our founding host, Bridget Lancaster.

In the summer of 1951, a teenager named Brady Keys, boarded a train to Los Angeles.

Brady spent the first 14 years of his life in Austin, Texas. Growing up in the

South met his world was confined by rigid color lines. Jim Crow determined where he could live, where his community could

worship, get an education, socialize. Even his passion for football was subject to

separate but equal.

His coaches were impressed by his game, but they knew and Brady knew that he wouldn't

be able to play for the University of Texas Longhorns because of his race.

Maybe California would be different.

Brady settled into a seat, set down his bag, and a small cardboard shoebox.

This cardboard box, which doubled as a lunchbox, was a staple of black travel during the first

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