Breaking the line : the season in Black college football that transformed the sport and changed the course of civil rights / Samuel G. Freedman.
2013
GV950 .F74 2013 (Mapit)
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Title
Breaking the line : the season in Black college football that transformed the sport and changed the course of civil rights / Samuel G. Freedman.
Author
Freedman, Samuel G.
ISBN
9781439189771
1439189773
9781439189788 (trade pbk.)
1439189781 (trade pbk.)
1439189773
9781439189788 (trade pbk.)
1439189781 (trade pbk.)
Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Language
English
Description
xii, 318 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
GV950 .F74 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
796.332
Summary
Looks at the 1967 football season leading up to that year's black college championship between Grambling College and Florida A&M, and how it fit into the civil rights struggles of the time.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-300) and index.
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Table of Contents
Behind God's back
Draw water where you can
The laboratory for manhood
Spared for something
Somebody has got to pay
The best quarterback tonight
Diplomacy with downtown
That's my blood
Borrowed time
Juneteenth in December
History in the air
Epilogue: Their lives, their legacy
1967 regular-season records
Starting lineups.
Draw water where you can
The laboratory for manhood
Spared for something
Somebody has got to pay
The best quarterback tonight
Diplomacy with downtown
That's my blood
Borrowed time
Juneteenth in December
History in the air
Epilogue: Their lives, their legacy
1967 regular-season records
Starting lineups.