Outside the lines : African Americans and the integration of the National Football League / Charles K. Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Charles Kenyatta, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American football players--Biography.

Discrimination in sports--United States--History.

National Football League--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Outside the Lines traces how sports laid a foundation for social change long before the judicial system formally recognized the inequalities of racial separation. Integrating sports teams to include white and black athletes alike, the National Football League served as a microcosmic fishbowl of the highs and lows, the trials and triumphs, of racial integration. Watching a football game on a Sunday evening, most sports fans do not realize the profound impact the National Football League had on the civil rights movement. Similarly, in a sport where seven out of ten players are black, few are

Contents:

Kickoff : the first Black pro

Early Black pioneers : from Fritz Pollard to Joe Lillard

Invisible men : the NFL color barrier

Reintegration : Washington, Strode, Willis, and Motley

First and ten : the early years of reintegration

New league with old rules : "the golden decade of the 1950s"

Touchdown : the integration of the Washington Redskins

Epilogue : the state of the game.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-196) and index.

ISBN:

0-8147-6905-5

OCLC:

780425932