'Sometimes we can think about someone we love so much and it just stops us cold in our tracks... Love is so powerful that sometimes it can hurt. When that happens, that’s when we need each other the most.' JoeGoodmanJr on 'Charles Cleveland Day':
They were so close, and that’s because that’s how Charles wanted it to be. Charles made his little brother feel like the most important person in the world and that’s how Ray always viewed his brother, too. They were two of six children of their loving mom, Everlina Cleveland, and they lived together in close quarters. How close? Charles and Ray shared a bed long enough for Ray to still remember falling asleep next to his big brother.
“It still gets to me that he’s gone,” Ray said to me over the phone leading up to the event. “Sometimes it just hits me.” Charles needed to be on the wall at Huddle House, Ray said, and after Ray explained it all, Carrie agreed. Ray gave Carrie some of her brother’s memorabilia from his playing days, and Carrie then made a shadow box for the wall. For months, the shadow box advertised Charles Cleveland Day. When April 22, 2023, arrived, Carrie’s Huddle House provided some food for the event.“His friendship is more like a love,” she said.
Friends of Alabama basketball legend Charles Cleveland gathered to celebrate Cleveland's life on April 22, 2023, in Brent, Alabama.Where out in the woods, I followed up.It was at that point that I knew it was going to be a fun conversation.“We nailed a dog-on tricycle rim to a tree and he used to tell me to go over there and stand under that rim,” Ray said. “We didn’t have a backboard. I would stand under the rim and catch the shots and pass them back.
Cleveland attended segregated schools for Black students until his junior year of high school. In 1970, he was part of the first integrated class of Bibb County High. How did that go? A few months later, like some kind of Bibb County basketball version of the movie “Remember the Titans,” Cleveland and his newly integrated basketball team won Bibb County’s first-ever basketball state championship.
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