Outside the lines : African Americans and the integration of the National Football League /

Outside the lines : African Americans and the integration of the National Football League /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ross, Charles Kenyatta, 1964-
Imprint:	New York : New York University Press, ©1999.
Description:	1 online resource (201 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	National Football League -- History. National Football League. African American football players -- Biography. Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History. African American football players. Discrimination in sports. United States. Biographies. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11129082

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ISBN:	9780814769058 0814769055 0814774954 9780814774953
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-196) and index. English. Print version record.
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 ful.
Other form:	Print version: Ross, Charles Kenyatta, 1964- Outside the lines. New York : New York University Press, ©1999

Table of 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.