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Pages: 300
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Categories: Sports & Recreation
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The “beautifully written” biography of the first African American player to be drafted by the NFL, “a must read for any sports fan” (Warren Rogan, host
In Black and White
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Kenneth L. Shropshire
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-08 - Publisher: NYU Press

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Practicing sports lawyer Shropshire (legal studies, U. of Pennsylvania) points out the racism still institutionalized in American professional sports, distills
Tackling Jim Crow
Language: en
Pages: 186
Authors: Alan H. Levy
Categories: Sports & Recreation
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Many are familiar with Jackie Robinson and the integration of Major League Baseball after all the years of separate black and white leagues, but fewer people kn
Outside the Lines
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Charles K. Ross
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: NYU Press

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Outside the Lines traces how sports laid a foundation for social change long before the judicial system formally recognized the inequalities of racial separatio
Integrating the Gridiron
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Lane Demas
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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Even the most casual sports fans celebrate the achievements of professional athletes, among them Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, and Joe Louis. Yet before and af