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Glory bound : Black athletes in a White America / David K. Wiggins.
| Author/creator | Wiggins, David Kenneth, 1951- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, ©1997. |
| Description | xx, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Sports and entertainment Sports and entertainment. |
| Contents | The play of slave children in the plantation communities of the Old South, 1820-1860 -- Isaac Murphy: black hero in nineteenth-century American sport, 1861-1896 -- Peter Jackson and the elusive heavyweight championship: a black athlete's struggle against the late nineteenth-century color line -- The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin: the response of America's black press -- Wendell Smith, the Pittsburgh Courier-Journal, and the campaign to include blacks in organized baseball, 1933-1945 -- "The year of awakening": black athletes, racial unrest, and the Civil Rights Movement of 1968 -- "The future of college athletics is at stake": black athletes and racial turmoil on three predominantly white university campuses, 1968-1972 -- Victory for Allah: Muhammad Ali, the nation of Islam, and American society -- "Great speed but little stamina": the historical debate over black athletic superiority -- The notion of double-consciousness and the involvement of black athletes in American sport -- Edwin Bancroft Henderson, African American athletes, and the writing of sport history. |
| Local note | Little-303829--305131003473u |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-287) and index. |
| LCCN | 96046218 |
| ISBN | 0815627335 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0815627343 (pbk. : alk. paper) |