Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Illustrations ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• Introduction xiii
• Part One - From Plantation to Playing Field 1
• 1 - The Play of Slave Children in the Plantation Communities of the Old South, 1820-1860 3
• 2 - Isaac Murphy Black Hero in Nineteenth-Century American Sport, 1861-1896 21
• 3 - Peter Jackson and the Elusive Heavyweight Championship A Black Athlete's Struggle Against the Late Nineteenth- Century Color Line 34
• Part Two - Civil Rights and the Quest for Equality 59
• 4 - The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin The Response of America's Black Press 61
• 5 - Wendell Smith, the Pittsburgh Courier-Journal, and the Campaign to Include Blacks in Organized Baseball, 1933-1945 80
• 6 - "The Year of Awakening" Black Athletes, Racial Unrest, and the Civil Rights Movement of 1968 104
• 7 - "The Future of College Athletics is at Stake" Black Athletes and Racial Turmoil on Three Predominantly White University Campuses, 1968-1972 123
• 8 - Victory for Allah Muhammad Ali, the Nation of Islam, and American Society 152
• Part Three - Race Relations and the Ideology of Sport 175

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Illustrations ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• Introduction xiii
• Part One - From Plantation to Playing Field 1
• 1 - The Play of Slave Children in the Plantation Communities of the Old South, 1820-1860 3
• 2 - Isaac Murphy Black Hero in Nineteenth-Century American Sport, 1861-1896 21
• 3 - Peter Jackson and the Elusive Heavyweight Championship A Black Athlete's Struggle Against the Late Nineteenth- Century Color Line 34
• Part Two - Civil Rights and the Quest for Equality 59
• 4 - The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin The Response of America's Black Press 61
• 5 - Wendell Smith, the Pittsburgh Courier-Journal, and the Campaign to Include Blacks in Organized Baseball, 1933-1945 80
• 6 - "The Year of Awakening" Black Athletes, Racial Unrest, and the Civil Rights Movement of 1968 104
• 7 - "The Future of College Athletics is at Stake" Black Athletes and Racial Turmoil on Three Predominantly White University Campuses, 1968-1972 123
• 8 - Victory for Allah Muhammad Ali, the Nation of Islam, and American Society 152
• Part Three - Race Relations and the Ideology of Sport 175
• 9 - "Great Speed but Little Stamina" the Historical Debate Over Black Athletic Superiority 177
• 10 - The Notion of Double- Consciousness and the Involvement of Black Athletes in American Sport 200
• 11 - Edwin Bancroft Henderson, African American Athletes, and the Writing of Sport History 221
• Notes 243
• Bibliographical Essay 279
• Index 289