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