Integrating the Gridiron : : Black Civil Rights and American College Football / / Lane Demas.
Even the most casual sports fans celebrate the achievements of professional athletes, among them Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, and Joe Louis. Yet before and after these heroes staked a claim for African Americans in professional sports, dozens of college athletes asserted their own civil rights on...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2010] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (194 p.) :; 10 b&W photos |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Prologue
- 1. Beyond Jackie Robinson: Racial Integration in American College Football and New Directions in Sport History
- 2. "On the Threshold of Broad and Rich Football Pastures": Integrated College Football at UCLA, 1938-1941
- 3. "A Fist That Was Very Much Intentional": Postwar Football in the Midwest and the 1951 Johnny Bright Scandal
- 4. "We Play Anyone": Deciphering the Racial Politics of Georgia Football and the 1956 Sugar Bowl Controversy
- 5. "Beat the Devil Out of BYU": Football and Black Power in the Mountain West, 1968-1970
- Epilogue
- NOTES
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR