Preface
1. Striving for athletic success in a Jim Crow society
1. Jimmy Winkfield : the "Black maestro" of the racetrack / Susan Hamburger
2. Marshall "Major" Taylor : the fastest bicycle rider in the world / Andrew Ritchie
3. The strange career of William Henry Lewis / Gregory Bond
4. Jack Johnson and the quest for racial respect / Gerald R. Gems
2. Fashioning a world of sport behind segregated walls and on the international stage
5. Ora Washington : the first Black female athletic star / Pamela Grundy
6. Satchel Paige's struggle for selfhood in the era of Jim Crow / Donald Spivey
7. Jesse Owens : leading man in modern American tales of racial progress and limits / Mark Dyreson
8. Joe Louis, boxing, and American culture / Anthony O. Edmonds
9. Alice Coachman : quiet champion of the 1940s / Jennifer H. Lansbury
10. Jackie Robinson : racial pioneer and athlete extraordinaire in an era of change / Michael E. Lomax


3. The fight for civil rights through athletic performance, persuasion, and protest
11. "Jackie Robinson without the charm" : the challenges of being Althea Gibson / Mary Jo Festle
12. Wilma Rudolph : the making of an Olympic icon / Wayne Wilson
13. Bill Russell : pioneer and champion of the sixties / Maureen M. Smith
14. Jim Brown : superlative athlete, screen star, social activist / J. Thomas Jable
15. Muhammad Ali : flawed rebel with a cause / Gerald Early
16. "The quiet militant" : Arthur Ashe and Black athletic activism / Damion Thomas
4. Race, sport, and celebrity culture
17. Bound by blackness or above it? Michael Jordan and the paradoxes of post-civil rights American race relations / Douglas Hartmann
18. "Race," family, and nation : the significance of Tiger Woods in American culture / S.W. Pope
19. "Ghetto Cinderellas" : Venus and Serena Williams and the discourse of racism / R. Pierre Rodgers and Ellen B. Drogin Rodgers
Notes
Bibliographical note
Contributors
Index.