Sports
Advancing the Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal CoachingOpportunity in the NFL
Following the NFL's desegregation in 1946, opportunities became increasingly plentiful for African American players--but not African American c…
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The Longest Fight: In the Ring with Joe Gans, Boxing's First AfricanAmerican Champion
Many people came to Goldfield, Nevada, America's last gold-rush town, to seek their fortune. However, on a searing summer day in September 1906…
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The Complete Muhammad Ali
Including material and photographs not included in most of the 100 other books about the champion, Ishmael Reed’s The Complete Muhammad Ali is more …
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Black and White: The Way I See It
He’d set his mind to raise two of the greatest women champions in professional tennis well before they could even hold a racket. The father of Venus…
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Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To TalkAbout It
In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every distance runni…
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The New Plantation: Black Athletes, College Sports, and PredominantlyWhite NCAA Institutions
The New Plantation examines the controversial relationship between Black athletes and predominantly White NCAA Division I Institutions (PWIs), full…
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Brave Black Women: From Slavery to the Space Shuttle
Writing especially for students in grades four through eight, Ruthe Winegarten and Sharon Kahn trace the history of black women from slavery until…
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White Sports/Black Sports: Racial Disparities in Athletic Programs(Racism in American Institutions)
Sports can serve as an inspirational example of what can be achieved through hard work and perseverance, regardless of one's race. However, the…
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Halifax Champion: Black Power in Gloves
When boxing was in its prime and race relations were at the fore, Dave Downey became a Halifax champion In the 1960s and 1970s, boxing was a popul…
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Jim Brown: The Fierce Life of an American Hero
He intimidated people on and off the football field. He was brutal yet brilliant, narcissistic yet magnanimous, relentless yet unyielding. Most of a…
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Driven: From Homeless to Hero, My Journeys On and Off Lambeau Field
When he was picked in the seventh-round of 1999 NFL draft, Donald Driver couldn’t find Green Bay on a map. He was given little chance of making the…
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The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs. Schmeling
Held on June 22, 1938, in Yankee Stadium, the second Louis-Schmeling fight sparked excitement around the globe. For all its length-the fight lasted …
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The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
"During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing. You saw only a part of me. After I retired from …
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Integrating the Gridiron: Black Civil Rights and American College Football
Even the most casual sports fans celebrate the achievements of professional athletes, among them Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, and Joe Louis. Yet b…
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A Cuban Boxer's Journey: Guillermo Rigondeaux, from Castro's Traitor to American Champion
THE STORY OF CUBAN BOXER AND POLITICAL PARIAH GUILLERMO RIGONDEAUX'S HARROWING DECISION TO DEFECT IN HOPES OF REAPING THE REWARDS OF THE AMERICA…
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Black and Proud: The Story of an Iconic AFL Photo
It is one of Australia's most iconic images. On 17 April 1993, the Indigenous AFL footballer Nicky Winmar stood up against racial abuse and made…
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Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games
Running for My Life is not a story about Africa or track and field athletics. It is about outrunning the devil and achieving the impossible faith, d…
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The Dirtiest Race in History: Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the 1988 Olympic 100m Final
The 1988 Seoul Olympics played host to what has been described by some as the dirtiest race of all time, by others as the greatest. The final of the…
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Come Out Smokin': Joe Frazier - The Champ Nobody Knew
With Smokin’ Joe Frazier’s death elevating his legend and his legacy, go back in time to read the first book ever to delve into the life of the Boxi…
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Beyond a Boundary: 50th Anniversary Edition (The C. L. R. James Archives)
This new edition of C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and cul…
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