Conspiracy of silence : sportswriters and the long campaign to desegregate baseball / Chris Lamb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamb, Chris, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baseball--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Baseball.

Discrimination in sports--United States--History--20th century.

Discrimination in sports.

Mass media and sports--United States--History--20th century.

Mass media and sports.

Sportswriters--United States--History--20th century.

Sportswriters.

African American sportswriters--History--20th century.

African American sportswriters.

Racism--United States--History--20th century.

Racism.

History.

Baseball--Social aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 397 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2012]

Summary:

Examines the campaign to desegregate baseball, chronicles the efforts of alternative presses to end baseball' color line, and reveals how differently black and white newspapers, and black and white America, viewed racial equality.

Contents:

Part 1

1 White Sportswriters and Minstrel Shows 3

Part 2

2 The Color Line is Drawn 29

3 Invisible Men 57

4 "Agitators" and "Social-Minded Drum Beaters": Written with Kelly Rusinack 85

Part 3

5 "L'affaire Jake Powell" 109

6 Major League Managers and Ballplayers Call for End of Color Line 133

Part 4

7 The Double V Campaign 159

8 "The Great White Father" Speaks 187

9 Black Editors Make their Case for Desegregation 217

10 "Get Those Niggers Off the Field" 249

Part 5

11 Robinson Becomes the Chosen One 283

Part 6

12 "I Never Want to Take Another Trip Like this One" 307.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780803210769

0803210760

OCLC:

753468482