We Will Win the Day : The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality / Louis Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Louis, author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics & International Relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 233 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Westport, CT : Greenwood, 2009.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This exceedingly timely book looks at the history of black activist athletes and the important role of the black community in making sure fair play existed, not only in sports, but across U.S. society. Most books that focus on ties between sports, black athletes, and the Civil Rights Movement focus on specific issues or people. They discuss, for example, how baseball was integrated or tell the stories of individuals like Jackie Robinson or Muhammad Ali. This book approaches the topic differently. By examining the connection between sports, black athletes and the Civil Rights Movement overall, it puts the athletes and their stories into the proper context. Rather than romanticizing the stories and the men and women who lived them, it uses the roles these individuals played-or chose not to play-to illuminate the complexities and nuances in the relationship between black athletes and the fight for racial equality. Arranged thematically, the book starts with Jackie Robinson's entry into baseball when he signed with the Dodgers in 1945 and ends with the revolt of black athletes in the late 1960s, symbolized by Tommie Smith and John Carlos famously raising their clenched fists during a medal ceremony at the 1968 Olympics. Accounts from the black press and the athletes themselves help illustrate the role black athletes played in the Civil Rights Movement. At the same time, the book also examines how the black public viewed sports and the contributions of black athletes during these tumultuous decades, showing how the black communities' belief in merit and democracy-combined with black athletic success-influenced the push for civil rights.

Contents:

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Democracy in Action: Sports and the American Dream Chapter 2 White Allies Chapter 3 The Press and the People: The Final Fight for Fairness Chapter 4 Deep Down in Dixie: Segregated Sports in a Post-Brown Era Chapter 5 The Ban and the Banner: Black Olympians in a Jim Crow Society Chapter 6 African American Athletes and Activism: Everybody Has a Part to Play Chapter 7 The Revolt of the Black Athlete Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798216034186

9798216163824

9781440839535

1440839530

OCLC:

987070519