Race and sport : the struggle for equality on and off the field

Race and sport : the struggle for equality on and off the field / essays by Scott Brooks [and others] ; edited by Charles K. Ross.

"Even before the desegregation of the military and public education and before blacks had full legal access to voting, racial barriers had begun to fall in American sports. This collection of essays shows that for many African Americans it was the world of athletics that first opened an avenue...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium
Other Authors: Brooks, Scott, Ross, Charles Kenyatta, 1964-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2004.
Subjects:
Racism in sports > United States > History.
African American athletes > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
African American athletes
Racism in sports
Rassendiskriminierung
Sport
Racisme.
Athlète afro-américain.
Sport.
Histoire.
United States
Schwärze
USA
États-Unis.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Fritz Pollard and integration in early professional football / John M. Carroll
  • Before Magic and Keyshawn : Sugar Ray Robinson, the businessman / Kenneth L. Shropshire and Scott Brooks
  • Fostering community consciousness : the role of women's basketball at Black colleges and universities, 1900-1950 / Rita Liberti
  • Major league baseball's separate-and-unequal doctrine : the African American and Latino experience in spring training, 1946-1961 / Michael E. Lomax
  • The American imperial crusade : race, religion, and sport in the Pacific / Gerald R. Gems
  • The African American student-athlete / Earl Smith
  • Muscular assimilationism : sport and the paradoxes of racial reform / Patrick B. Miller
  • The uneven view of African American ballers / C. Keith Harrison and Alicia Valdez.

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