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



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Autore: Lamb Chris <1958-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Conspiracy of silence : sportswriters and the long campaign to desegregate baseball / / Chris Lamb Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (414 p.)
Disciplina: 796.3570973
Soggetto topico: Baseball - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century
Discrimination in sports - United States - History - 20th century
Mass media and sports - United States - History - 20th century
Sportswriters - United States - History - 20th century
African American sportswriters - History - 20th century
Racism - United States - History - 20th century
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part 1; Chapter 1: White Sportswriters and Minstrel Shows; Part 2; Chapter 2: The Color Line Is Drawn; Chapter 3: Invisible Men; Chapter 4: ""Agitators"" and ""Social-Minded Drum Beaters""; Part 3; Chapter 5: ""L'Affaire Jake Powell""; Chapter 6: Major League Managers and Ballplayers Call for End of Color Line; Part 4; Chapter 7: The Double V Campaign; Chapter 8: ""The Great White Father"" Speaks; Chapter 9: Black Editors Make Their Case for Desegregation; Chapter 10: ""Get Those Niggers Off the Field""; Part 5
Chapter 11: Robinson Becomes the Chosen One Part 6; Chapter 12: ""I never Want to Take Another Trip Like This One""; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: The campaign to desegregate baseball was one of the most important civil rights stories of the 1930's and 1940's. But most of white America knew nothing about this story because mainstream newspapers said little about the color line and less about the efforts to end it. Even today, as far as most Americans know, the integration of baseball revolved around Branch Rickey's signing of Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers' organization in 1945. This book shows how Rickey's move, critical as it may well have been, came after more than a decade of work by black and left-leaning journalists
Titolo autorizzato: Conspiracy of silence  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-68765-7
0-8032-4020-1
9786613664594
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910811922103321
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