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Outside the Lines: African Americans and the Integration of the National Football League

by Charles K. Ross
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780814774960
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: New York University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 240
  • Original Price: GBP 25.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised
  • Item Weight: 313 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Football

Explores the often overlooked role of the NFL in the American civil rights movement

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 fully aware of the history and contributions of their athletic forebears. Among the touchdowns and tackles lies a rich history of African American life and the struggle to achieve equal rights.

Outside the Lines traces how football laid a foundation for social change long before the judicial system formally recognized the inequalities of racial separation. Integrating teams to include white and Black athletes alike fifty years before the reversal of Plessy v Ferguson, the National Football League served as a microcosmic fishbowl of the highs and lows--the trials and triumphs--of racial integration. In this chronicle of the important stories of Black NFL athletes in the early twentieth century, Charles K. Ross has given us an important insight into the role of sports in the fight for racial justice.

Ross, Charles K.: - Charles K. Ross is Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi.

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