Tackling Jim Crow: Racial Segregation in Professional Football - Brossura

Levy, Alan Howard

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ISBN 10: 0786415975 ISBN 13: 9780786415977

Casa editrice: McFarland Publishing, 2003

Riassunto

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 know of the segregation and then integration of the National Football League. The timing and sequence of events were different, but football followed a pattern similar to that of baseball in regard to the beginning and end of racial segregation. This work traces professional football s movement from segregation to integration, beginning with a discussion of the various reasons why the game was first segregated. It describes the schemes that NFL owners came up with to ban African Americans from the league in the 1930s and 1940s, and tells how these barriers broke down after World War II. The author considers how professional football overcame the legacies of Jim Crow and how Jim Crow laws may still haunt the game.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Longtime sports fan Alan H. Levy is a professor of American history at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. He is the author of Joe McCarthy (2005), Rube Waddell (2000) and several books on American music, including a biography of the noted composer Edward MacDowell.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: McFarland Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0786415975
• ISBN 13: 9780786415977
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 172
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