Sport and the Color Line: Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth-Century America

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface vii
• Introduction ix
• I - Sport and Community in the Era of Jim Crow 1
• 1 - Sport and Black Pittsburgh, 1900-1930 3
• 2 - Black Entrepreneurship in the National Pastime 25
• 3 - Year of the Comet 45
• 4 - "A General Understanding" 63
• 5 - "We Were Ladies, We Just Played like Boys" 83
• 6 - A Special Type of Discipline 101
• II - The Ordeal of Desegregation 123
• 7 - Joe Louis 127
• 8 - "End Jim Crow in Sports" 147
• 9 - Jackie Robinson 167
• 10 - More Than a Game 191

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface vii
• Introduction ix
• I - Sport and Community in the Era of Jim Crow 1
• 1 - Sport and Black Pittsburgh, 1900-1930 3
• 2 - Black Entrepreneurship in the National Pastime 25
• 3 - Year of the Comet 45
• 4 - "A General Understanding" 63
• 5 - "We Were Ladies, We Just Played like Boys" 83
• 6 - A Special Type of Discipline 101
• II - The Ordeal of Desegregation 123
• 7 - Joe Louis 127
• 8 - "End Jim Crow in Sports" 147
• 9 - Jackie Robinson 167
• 10 - More Than a Game 191
• 11 - "Cinderellas" of Sport 211
• 12 - Jim Crow in the Gymnasium 233
• 13 - Civil Rights on the Gridiron 251
• III - Images of the Black Athlete and the Racial Politics of Sport 269
• 14 - Edwin Bancroft Henderson, African-American Athletes, and the Writing of Sport History 271
• 15 - The Greatest 289
• 16 - The Sports Spectacle, Michael Jordan, and Nike 305
• 17 - The Anatomy of Scientific Racism 327
• 18 - Crisis of Black Athletes on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century 345
• Further Reading 351
• Contributors 363
• Permission Acknowledgments 367
• Index 369