Tackling jim crow: racial segregation in professional football
Auteur :
Levy, Alan H.
Éditeur :
McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN :
9780786415977
Date de publication :
9 avr. 2003
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 0,9 cm
Poids :
245 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
This work traces American football's movement from segregation to integration, It features a discussion of the various reasons why the game was segregated to begin with and then looks at the schemes that NFL owners came up with to ban African Americans from the league in the 1930s and 1940s.