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- Summary
- Uses over 100 primary source documents to discuss the relationship between African American athletes and the history of sports
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxi, 493 pages
- Contents
-
- Antebellum Ordeals: Slavery, Sport, and the Prospects of Freedom -- Tom Molineaux, Black Pioneer in Sport -- Frederick Douglass / Holiday Times -- Francis Fedric / A Corn Shucking -- Solomon Northup / Patting Juba -- Benny Dilliard / Preachin' and Baptizin' -- William Green / Becoming a Race Rider -- Amos Webber Reports on Thanksgiving Field Day -- Striving for Success: African American Athletes in the Early Period of Jim Crow, 1865 -- 1915 -- The Problem of Exclusion -- The Color Line in Organized Baseball -- Weldy Wilberforce Walker / Why Discriminate? -- Health, Recreation, and Sport in the Postbellum Era -- W.E.B. Du Bois / The Problem of Amusement -- Samuel Archer and J.B. Watson on Football at Southern Black Colleges -- Wililam Clarence Matthews / Negro Foot-ball Players on New England Teams -- Thomas J. Clement / Athletics in the American Army -- Sol White / Managers Troubles -- Baseball Among the Fairer Sex Coming into Prominence -- Black Athletic Heroes at the Turn of the Century -- Isaac Murphy, the Great Lexington Jockey -- Marshall Major Taylor, Champion Sprint Cyclist -- George Dixon's Long Career in Boxing -- Peter Jackson and the Elusive Heavyweight Championship -- William Henry Lewis: Uplifting the Race -- Papa Jack: In the Ring and Out -- Booker T. Washington and Jack Johnson: Race Men and Respectability -- W.E.B. Du Bois and Jack Johnson: The Scholar's Pugilist and the Heavyweight Champ as Folk Hero -- Parallel Institutions: Black Sports between the World Wars -- Leisure and Recreation: Some Considerations -- Emmet J. Scott / Leisure Time and the Colored Citizen -- Baseball behind the Veil of Segregation: Negro Teams and Leagues -- Beauregard F. Moseley A Baseball Appeal -- Anderw Rube Foster / Will Colored Baseball Survive the Acid Test? -- Chester L. Washington / Satchel's Back in Town -- Nat Trammel / Baseball Classic -- East vs. West -- An Array of Venues -- and Accomplishments -- The Harlem Rens, Incomparible Courteers -- Gerald Norman / National American Tennis Association Championships -- J. Elmer Reed on the National Negro Bowling Association -- Frank A. Young / Cum Posey: Athlete and Entrepreneur -- Interscholastic and Collegiate Sport: Muscular Assimilationism -- Developing a High School Basketball Tournament -- African American Women Make Their Marks in Sport -- Women's Basketball and the Shape of Things to Come: Bennett College vs. the Philadelphia Tribunes -- Nation Eyes Lincoln and Howard Game -- Hildrus A. Poindexter Discusses the Gridiron World: Lincoln, 1922-23 -- Cultural Critiques -- The Colored Basketball Referee Finally Arrives -- Tuskegee and 'Force' Rapped for Tribute to Knute Rockne -- Wendell Smith / A Strange Tribe: On the Loyalties of Black Fans -- W.E.B. Du Bois, Allison Davis, and Langston Hughes on the Excesses of Black College Sport -- The Quest for Racial Reform: Affirmation and Protest in the Sporting Realm, 1920s and 1930s -- The New Negro in Sports -- James Weldon Johnson on Sportsmen in Black Manhattan -- Robert Hayden / Free Fantasia: Tiger Flowers -- Paris Noir: Eugene Bullard on the Expatiate Experience -- Negotiating the Terms of Black Athletic Achievement -- Harry Levette and Herbert Henegan: Two Considerations of the 1932 Olympic Games -- Black Mercuries: the Meaning of Black Athletic Achievement -- W. Montague Cobb / Race and Runners -- Walter white to Jesse Owens on Race Pride and the Nazi Olympics -- Reckoning with Joe Louis -- Marcus Garvey / The American Negro in Sport -- Richard Wright / High Tide in Harlem: Joe Louis as a Symbol of Freedom -- Willis P. Armstrong / A Toast to joe Louis -- Denouncing Racial Prejudice -- Concerning the Snubbing of Paul Robeson -- The Economics of Bigotry: New Orleans Bars Blacks, Loses a Track Meet -- Itegrationism in Public Recreation: Denver as a Case Study -- NExt Bout -- The NAACP vs Jim Crow: Charles Hamilton Houston on the Politics of Sport in Washington, D.C. -- Strategies of Appeal -- Edwin Bancroft Henderson / the Negro
- Athlete and Race Prejudice -- Roy Wilkins / That Old Southern Accent -- Paul D. Davis / Students, Teachers Blast Ban against Lacrosse Player: Harvard University and the Color Line -- William A. Brower / Has Professional Football Closed the Door? -- African American Athletes and Democratic Principles: Interpreting the Desegregation of Sport, 1940s and 1950s -- The Meanings of Jackie Robinson -- Walter White / Jackie Robinson on Trial -- Sam Lacy / Campy, Jackie as Dodgers -- Effa Manley / Negro Baseball Is at the Crossroads -- Gerald Early / American Integration, Black Heroism, and the Meaning of Jackie Robinson -- Sport, Culture, and Community in Black America -- E. Franklin Frazier / Society: Status Without Substance -- Dan Burley / The top Tend of the First Fifty Years -- Fritz Pollard Explains REasons for Having a Negro Hall of Fame -- Nelson George on the Harlem Globetrotters -- The First Rounds of the Second Reconstruction -- New Faces in Pro Football -- Are there Too Many Negroes in Baseball? -- To Desegregate the Gold Courses of America -- Rufus Clement / Racial Integration in the Field of Sports -- And They Call This a Democracy: Little League Baseball and the Struggle for Equality -- Weekend at the Penn Relays -- Up Close and Personal -- Adam Buckley Cohen / The Mugging of Johnny Bright -- Andrew W. Ramsey / The Skies Refused to Fall: Crispus Attucks High School and Indiana Basketball -- Is Ralph Dupas Negro or White? -- Althea Gibson / What Now? -- Alex Haley on Wilma Rudolph / The Queen Who Earned Her Crown -- Sport, the Civil Rights Movement, and Black Power, 1960s and 1970s -- Speaking Out and Hanging In -- Negro Athletes and Civil Rights -- Chet Walker / On the Road in the South, 1960 -- A.S. Doc Young / Rebellion at Cal -- The Politics of Protest: Teh 1968 Olympic Games -- Harry Edwards / Mounting the Revolt -- The Boycott Debate: Tommy Smith on Why Negroes Should Boycott the Olympics, and Ralph Boston on Why They Should Not -- Culture and Dissent: Boxing -- James Baldwin / The Fight: Patterson vs. Liston -- Eldridge Cleaver / The Muhammad Ali-Patterson Fight -- Elijah Muhammad Disciplines Muhammad Ali -- Muhammad Ali Faces the Nation -- Progress, Protest, and Alienation in the Sports Factory, 1970s and Beyond -- Challenging the Color Line -- Jess Jackson on Blacks and the Sports $$$ -- Phil Petrie / The NFL Sacks the Black Quarterback -- Eddie Robinson on Grambling's First White Player -- Lloyd V. Hackley / We Need to Educate Our Athletes: Higher Education and Sports -- The Limits of Integration -- Marian E. Washington / Black women in Sports: Can We Get Off The Track? -- Frank Robinson / In America's National Pasttime ... White is the Color of the Game off the Field -- Jim Brown / Racism in Context -- Rafer Johnson / The Decathlete as Community-Builder -- David Aldridge / A Team's Tue Colors: Washington Redskins on and off the Field -- David Zang / An Interview with Calvin Hill -- Margo Jeffersopn on Arthur Ashe: On the Court, in the World -- Black Cultural Commentary: Race Relations and Sport at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century -- School and Society: Athletics and Academics -- Henry Louis Gates Jr. / Delusions of Grandeur -- Anita DeFrantz / Overcoming Obstacles -- Welch Suggs / Left Behind: Title IX and Black Women Athletes -- bell hooks / Dreams of Conquest -- The Pros -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee, a Woman of Substance -- Michael Eric Dyson / Be Like Mike? Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire -- John Edgar Wideman / Playing Dennis Rodman -- Nikki Giovanni / Iverson's Posse -- Michael Wilbon on Tiger Woods: History in Black and White -- William C
- Rhoden / NFL's Silent Majority Afraid to Force Change -- Dispatches from the Business Page and Some Thoughts for the Future -- Venus Williams's Star Endorsements -- Kenneth Shropshire / The Next Millenium -- Gerald Early / Performance and Reality: Race, Sports, and the Modern World -- Harry Edwards / The Decline of the Black Athlete
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- 9780252028205
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- The unlevel playing field : a documentary history of the African American experience in sport
- Title
- The unlevel playing field
- Title remainder
- a documentary history of the African American experience in sport
- Statement of responsibility
- [edited by] David K. Wiggins and Patrick B. Miller
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Uses over 100 primary source documents to discuss the relationship between African American athletes and the history of sports
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 796/.089/96073
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- GV706.32
- LC item number
- .U65 2003
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- 1951-
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- Wiggins, David Kenneth
- Miller, Patrick B
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- Sport and society
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- Discrimination in sports
- African American athletes
- African American athletes
- Discrimination in sports
- United States
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- Sport
- Sportler
- Schwarze
- USA
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- The unlevel playing field : a documentary history of the African American experience in sport, [edited by] David K. Wiggins and Patrick B. Miller
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Contents
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- Antebellum Ordeals: Slavery, Sport, and the Prospects of Freedom -- Tom Molineaux, Black Pioneer in Sport -- Frederick Douglass / Holiday Times -- Francis Fedric / A Corn Shucking -- Solomon Northup / Patting Juba -- Benny Dilliard / Preachin' and Baptizin' -- William Green / Becoming a Race Rider -- Amos Webber Reports on Thanksgiving Field Day -- Striving for Success: African American Athletes in the Early Period of Jim Crow, 1865 -- 1915 -- The Problem of Exclusion -- The Color Line in Organized Baseball -- Weldy Wilberforce Walker / Why Discriminate? -- Health, Recreation, and Sport in the Postbellum Era -- W.E.B. Du Bois / The Problem of Amusement -- Samuel Archer and J.B. Watson on Football at Southern Black Colleges -- Wililam Clarence Matthews / Negro Foot-ball Players on New England Teams -- Thomas J. Clement / Athletics in the American Army -- Sol White / Managers Troubles -- Baseball Among the Fairer Sex Coming into Prominence -- Black Athletic Heroes at the Turn of the Century -- Isaac Murphy, the Great Lexington Jockey -- Marshall Major Taylor, Champion Sprint Cyclist -- George Dixon's Long Career in Boxing -- Peter Jackson and the Elusive Heavyweight Championship -- William Henry Lewis: Uplifting the Race -- Papa Jack: In the Ring and Out -- Booker T. Washington and Jack Johnson: Race Men and Respectability -- W.E.B. Du Bois and Jack Johnson: The Scholar's Pugilist and the Heavyweight Champ as Folk Hero -- Parallel Institutions: Black Sports between the World Wars -- Leisure and Recreation: Some Considerations -- Emmet J. Scott / Leisure Time and the Colored Citizen -- Baseball behind the Veil of Segregation: Negro Teams and Leagues -- Beauregard F. Moseley A Baseball Appeal -- Anderw Rube Foster / Will Colored Baseball Survive the Acid Test? -- Chester L. Washington / Satchel's Back in Town -- Nat Trammel / Baseball Classic -- East vs. West -- An Array of Venues -- and Accomplishments -- The Harlem Rens, Incomparible Courteers -- Gerald Norman / National American Tennis Association Championships -- J. Elmer Reed on the National Negro Bowling Association -- Frank A. Young / Cum Posey: Athlete and Entrepreneur -- Interscholastic and Collegiate Sport: Muscular Assimilationism -- Developing a High School Basketball Tournament -- African American Women Make Their Marks in Sport -- Women's Basketball and the Shape of Things to Come: Bennett College vs. the Philadelphia Tribunes -- Nation Eyes Lincoln and Howard Game -- Hildrus A. Poindexter Discusses the Gridiron World: Lincoln, 1922-23 -- Cultural Critiques -- The Colored Basketball Referee Finally Arrives -- Tuskegee and 'Force' Rapped for Tribute to Knute Rockne -- Wendell Smith / A Strange Tribe: On the Loyalties of Black Fans -- W.E.B. Du Bois, Allison Davis, and Langston Hughes on the Excesses of Black College Sport -- The Quest for Racial Reform: Affirmation and Protest in the Sporting Realm, 1920s and 1930s -- The New Negro in Sports -- James Weldon Johnson on Sportsmen in Black Manhattan -- Robert Hayden / Free Fantasia: Tiger Flowers -- Paris Noir: Eugene Bullard on the Expatiate Experience -- Negotiating the Terms of Black Athletic Achievement -- Harry Levette and Herbert Henegan: Two Considerations of the 1932 Olympic Games -- Black Mercuries: the Meaning of Black Athletic Achievement -- W. Montague Cobb / Race and Runners -- Walter white to Jesse Owens on Race Pride and the Nazi Olympics -- Reckoning with Joe Louis -- Marcus Garvey / The American Negro in Sport -- Richard Wright / High Tide in Harlem: Joe Louis as a Symbol of Freedom -- Willis P. Armstrong / A Toast to joe Louis -- Denouncing Racial Prejudice -- Concerning the Snubbing of Paul Robeson -- The Economics of Bigotry: New Orleans Bars Blacks, Loses a Track Meet -- Itegrationism in Public Recreation: Denver as a Case Study -- NExt Bout -- The NAACP vs Jim Crow: Charles Hamilton Houston on the Politics of Sport in Washington, D.C. -- Strategies of Appeal -- Edwin Bancroft Henderson / the Negro
- Athlete and Race Prejudice -- Roy Wilkins / That Old Southern Accent -- Paul D. Davis / Students, Teachers Blast Ban against Lacrosse Player: Harvard University and the Color Line -- William A. Brower / Has Professional Football Closed the Door? -- African American Athletes and Democratic Principles: Interpreting the Desegregation of Sport, 1940s and 1950s -- The Meanings of Jackie Robinson -- Walter White / Jackie Robinson on Trial -- Sam Lacy / Campy, Jackie as Dodgers -- Effa Manley / Negro Baseball Is at the Crossroads -- Gerald Early / American Integration, Black Heroism, and the Meaning of Jackie Robinson -- Sport, Culture, and Community in Black America -- E. Franklin Frazier / Society: Status Without Substance -- Dan Burley / The top Tend of the First Fifty Years -- Fritz Pollard Explains REasons for Having a Negro Hall of Fame -- Nelson George on the Harlem Globetrotters -- The First Rounds of the Second Reconstruction -- New Faces in Pro Football -- Are there Too Many Negroes in Baseball? -- To Desegregate the Gold Courses of America -- Rufus Clement / Racial Integration in the Field of Sports -- And They Call This a Democracy: Little League Baseball and the Struggle for Equality -- Weekend at the Penn Relays -- Up Close and Personal -- Adam Buckley Cohen / The Mugging of Johnny Bright -- Andrew W. Ramsey / The Skies Refused to Fall: Crispus Attucks High School and Indiana Basketball -- Is Ralph Dupas Negro or White? -- Althea Gibson / What Now? -- Alex Haley on Wilma Rudolph / The Queen Who Earned Her Crown -- Sport, the Civil Rights Movement, and Black Power, 1960s and 1970s -- Speaking Out and Hanging In -- Negro Athletes and Civil Rights -- Chet Walker / On the Road in the South, 1960 -- A.S. Doc Young / Rebellion at Cal -- The Politics of Protest: Teh 1968 Olympic Games -- Harry Edwards / Mounting the Revolt -- The Boycott Debate: Tommy Smith on Why Negroes Should Boycott the Olympics, and Ralph Boston on Why They Should Not -- Culture and Dissent: Boxing -- James Baldwin / The Fight: Patterson vs. Liston -- Eldridge Cleaver / The Muhammad Ali-Patterson Fight -- Elijah Muhammad Disciplines Muhammad Ali -- Muhammad Ali Faces the Nation -- Progress, Protest, and Alienation in the Sports Factory, 1970s and Beyond -- Challenging the Color Line -- Jess Jackson on Blacks and the Sports $$$ -- Phil Petrie / The NFL Sacks the Black Quarterback -- Eddie Robinson on Grambling's First White Player -- Lloyd V. Hackley / We Need to Educate Our Athletes: Higher Education and Sports -- The Limits of Integration -- Marian E. Washington / Black women in Sports: Can We Get Off The Track? -- Frank Robinson / In America's National Pasttime ... White is the Color of the Game off the Field -- Jim Brown / Racism in Context -- Rafer Johnson / The Decathlete as Community-Builder -- David Aldridge / A Team's Tue Colors: Washington Redskins on and off the Field -- David Zang / An Interview with Calvin Hill -- Margo Jeffersopn on Arthur Ashe: On the Court, in the World -- Black Cultural Commentary: Race Relations and Sport at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century -- School and Society: Athletics and Academics -- Henry Louis Gates Jr. / Delusions of Grandeur -- Anita DeFrantz / Overcoming Obstacles -- Welch Suggs / Left Behind: Title IX and Black Women Athletes -- bell hooks / Dreams of Conquest -- The Pros -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee, a Woman of Substance -- Michael Eric Dyson / Be Like Mike? Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire -- John Edgar Wideman / Playing Dennis Rodman -- Nikki Giovanni / Iverson's Posse -- Michael Wilbon on Tiger Woods: History in Black and White -- William C
- Rhoden / NFL's Silent Majority Afraid to Force Change -- Dispatches from the Business Page and Some Thoughts for the Future -- Venus Williams's Star Endorsements -- Kenneth Shropshire / The Next Millenium -- Gerald Early / Performance and Reality: Race, Sports, and the Modern World -- Harry Edwards / The Decline of the Black Athlete
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- 27 cm.
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- xxi, 493 pages
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- The unlevel playing field : a documentary history of the African American experience in sport, [edited by] David K. Wiggins and Patrick B. Miller
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- volume
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- nc
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- Contents
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- Antebellum Ordeals: Slavery, Sport, and the Prospects of Freedom -- Tom Molineaux, Black Pioneer in Sport -- Frederick Douglass / Holiday Times -- Francis Fedric / A Corn Shucking -- Solomon Northup / Patting Juba -- Benny Dilliard / Preachin' and Baptizin' -- William Green / Becoming a Race Rider -- Amos Webber Reports on Thanksgiving Field Day -- Striving for Success: African American Athletes in the Early Period of Jim Crow, 1865 -- 1915 -- The Problem of Exclusion -- The Color Line in Organized Baseball -- Weldy Wilberforce Walker / Why Discriminate? -- Health, Recreation, and Sport in the Postbellum Era -- W.E.B. Du Bois / The Problem of Amusement -- Samuel Archer and J.B. Watson on Football at Southern Black Colleges -- Wililam Clarence Matthews / Negro Foot-ball Players on New England Teams -- Thomas J. Clement / Athletics in the American Army -- Sol White / Managers Troubles -- Baseball Among the Fairer Sex Coming into Prominence -- Black Athletic Heroes at the Turn of the Century -- Isaac Murphy, the Great Lexington Jockey -- Marshall Major Taylor, Champion Sprint Cyclist -- George Dixon's Long Career in Boxing -- Peter Jackson and the Elusive Heavyweight Championship -- William Henry Lewis: Uplifting the Race -- Papa Jack: In the Ring and Out -- Booker T. Washington and Jack Johnson: Race Men and Respectability -- W.E.B. Du Bois and Jack Johnson: The Scholar's Pugilist and the Heavyweight Champ as Folk Hero -- Parallel Institutions: Black Sports between the World Wars -- Leisure and Recreation: Some Considerations -- Emmet J. Scott / Leisure Time and the Colored Citizen -- Baseball behind the Veil of Segregation: Negro Teams and Leagues -- Beauregard F. Moseley A Baseball Appeal -- Anderw Rube Foster / Will Colored Baseball Survive the Acid Test? -- Chester L. Washington / Satchel's Back in Town -- Nat Trammel / Baseball Classic -- East vs. West -- An Array of Venues -- and Accomplishments -- The Harlem Rens, Incomparible Courteers -- Gerald Norman / National American Tennis Association Championships -- J. Elmer Reed on the National Negro Bowling Association -- Frank A. Young / Cum Posey: Athlete and Entrepreneur -- Interscholastic and Collegiate Sport: Muscular Assimilationism -- Developing a High School Basketball Tournament -- African American Women Make Their Marks in Sport -- Women's Basketball and the Shape of Things to Come: Bennett College vs. the Philadelphia Tribunes -- Nation Eyes Lincoln and Howard Game -- Hildrus A. Poindexter Discusses the Gridiron World: Lincoln, 1922-23 -- Cultural Critiques -- The Colored Basketball Referee Finally Arrives -- Tuskegee and 'Force' Rapped for Tribute to Knute Rockne -- Wendell Smith / A Strange Tribe: On the Loyalties of Black Fans -- W.E.B. Du Bois, Allison Davis, and Langston Hughes on the Excesses of Black College Sport -- The Quest for Racial Reform: Affirmation and Protest in the Sporting Realm, 1920s and 1930s -- The New Negro in Sports -- James Weldon Johnson on Sportsmen in Black Manhattan -- Robert Hayden / Free Fantasia: Tiger Flowers -- Paris Noir: Eugene Bullard on the Expatiate Experience -- Negotiating the Terms of Black Athletic Achievement -- Harry Levette and Herbert Henegan: Two Considerations of the 1932 Olympic Games -- Black Mercuries: the Meaning of Black Athletic Achievement -- W. Montague Cobb / Race and Runners -- Walter white to Jesse Owens on Race Pride and the Nazi Olympics -- Reckoning with Joe Louis -- Marcus Garvey / The American Negro in Sport -- Richard Wright / High Tide in Harlem: Joe Louis as a Symbol of Freedom -- Willis P. Armstrong / A Toast to joe Louis -- Denouncing Racial Prejudice -- Concerning the Snubbing of Paul Robeson -- The Economics of Bigotry: New Orleans Bars Blacks, Loses a Track Meet -- Itegrationism in Public Recreation: Denver as a Case Study -- NExt Bout -- The NAACP vs Jim Crow: Charles Hamilton Houston on the Politics of Sport in Washington, D.C. -- Strategies of Appeal -- Edwin Bancroft Henderson / the Negro
- Athlete and Race Prejudice -- Roy Wilkins / That Old Southern Accent -- Paul D. Davis / Students, Teachers Blast Ban against Lacrosse Player: Harvard University and the Color Line -- William A. Brower / Has Professional Football Closed the Door? -- African American Athletes and Democratic Principles: Interpreting the Desegregation of Sport, 1940s and 1950s -- The Meanings of Jackie Robinson -- Walter White / Jackie Robinson on Trial -- Sam Lacy / Campy, Jackie as Dodgers -- Effa Manley / Negro Baseball Is at the Crossroads -- Gerald Early / American Integration, Black Heroism, and the Meaning of Jackie Robinson -- Sport, Culture, and Community in Black America -- E. Franklin Frazier / Society: Status Without Substance -- Dan Burley / The top Tend of the First Fifty Years -- Fritz Pollard Explains REasons for Having a Negro Hall of Fame -- Nelson George on the Harlem Globetrotters -- The First Rounds of the Second Reconstruction -- New Faces in Pro Football -- Are there Too Many Negroes in Baseball? -- To Desegregate the Gold Courses of America -- Rufus Clement / Racial Integration in the Field of Sports -- And They Call This a Democracy: Little League Baseball and the Struggle for Equality -- Weekend at the Penn Relays -- Up Close and Personal -- Adam Buckley Cohen / The Mugging of Johnny Bright -- Andrew W. Ramsey / The Skies Refused to Fall: Crispus Attucks High School and Indiana Basketball -- Is Ralph Dupas Negro or White? -- Althea Gibson / What Now? -- Alex Haley on Wilma Rudolph / The Queen Who Earned Her Crown -- Sport, the Civil Rights Movement, and Black Power, 1960s and 1970s -- Speaking Out and Hanging In -- Negro Athletes and Civil Rights -- Chet Walker / On the Road in the South, 1960 -- A.S. Doc Young / Rebellion at Cal -- The Politics of Protest: Teh 1968 Olympic Games -- Harry Edwards / Mounting the Revolt -- The Boycott Debate: Tommy Smith on Why Negroes Should Boycott the Olympics, and Ralph Boston on Why They Should Not -- Culture and Dissent: Boxing -- James Baldwin / The Fight: Patterson vs. Liston -- Eldridge Cleaver / The Muhammad Ali-Patterson Fight -- Elijah Muhammad Disciplines Muhammad Ali -- Muhammad Ali Faces the Nation -- Progress, Protest, and Alienation in the Sports Factory, 1970s and Beyond -- Challenging the Color Line -- Jess Jackson on Blacks and the Sports $$$ -- Phil Petrie / The NFL Sacks the Black Quarterback -- Eddie Robinson on Grambling's First White Player -- Lloyd V. Hackley / We Need to Educate Our Athletes: Higher Education and Sports -- The Limits of Integration -- Marian E. Washington / Black women in Sports: Can We Get Off The Track? -- Frank Robinson / In America's National Pasttime ... White is the Color of the Game off the Field -- Jim Brown / Racism in Context -- Rafer Johnson / The Decathlete as Community-Builder -- David Aldridge / A Team's Tue Colors: Washington Redskins on and off the Field -- David Zang / An Interview with Calvin Hill -- Margo Jeffersopn on Arthur Ashe: On the Court, in the World -- Black Cultural Commentary: Race Relations and Sport at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century -- School and Society: Athletics and Academics -- Henry Louis Gates Jr. / Delusions of Grandeur -- Anita DeFrantz / Overcoming Obstacles -- Welch Suggs / Left Behind: Title IX and Black Women Athletes -- bell hooks / Dreams of Conquest -- The Pros -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee, a Woman of Substance -- Michael Eric Dyson / Be Like Mike? Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire -- John Edgar Wideman / Playing Dennis Rodman -- Nikki Giovanni / Iverson's Posse -- Michael Wilbon on Tiger Woods: History in Black and White -- William C
- Rhoden / NFL's Silent Majority Afraid to Force Change -- Dispatches from the Business Page and Some Thoughts for the Future -- Venus Williams's Star Endorsements -- Kenneth Shropshire / The Next Millenium -- Gerald Early / Performance and Reality: Race, Sports, and the Modern World -- Harry Edwards / The Decline of the Black Athlete
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