Full Description
Profiles of college athletes and teams that challenged the color line in America
Contents
Introduction - College Sports, Fair Play, and Black Masculinity; 1 - "Our Own 'Roby'" and "The Dark Cloud": Paul Robeson at Rutgers, 1915-1919; 2 - "Harbingers of Progress" and "The Gold Dust Trio": Washington, Strode, Robinson and the 1939 UCLA Football Team; 3 - "A First-Class Gentleman" and "That Big N----r": Wilt Chamberlain at the University of Kansas, 1955-1958; 4 - "Our Colored Boy" and "Fine Black Athletes": Charlie Scott at the University of North Carolina, 1965-1970; 5 - "Those Nigras" and "Men Again": Bear Bryant, John Mitchell, and Wilbur Jackson at the University of Alabama, 1969-1973; Conclusion - What We Talk About When We Talk About Sports; Bibliography.
