Conspiracy of silence [electronic resource] : sportswriters and the long campaign to desegregate baseball / Chris Lamb.
Lamb, Chris, 1958-
2012
GV863.A1 L36 2012eb
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Title Conspiracy of silence [electronic resource] : sportswriters and the long campaign to desegregate baseball / Chris Lamb.
Author Lamb, Chris, 1958-
ISBN 9780803240209 (electronic book)
0803210760
9780803210769
Imprint Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 397 p.)
Call Number GV863.A1 L36 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 796.3570973
Summary Examines the campaign to desegregate baseball, chronicles the efforts of alternative presses to end baseball' color line, and reveals how differently black and white newspapers, and black and white America, viewed racial equality.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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White sportswriters and minstrel shows
The color line is drawn
Invisible men
"Agitators" and "social-minded drum beaters" / written with Kelly Rusinack
"L'affaire Jake Powell"
Major league managers and ballplayers call for end of color line
The double V campaign
"The great white father" speaks
Black editors make their case for desegregation
"Get those niggers off the field"
Robinson becomes the chosen one
"I never want to take another trip like this one."

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