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Tackling Jim Crow: Racial Segregation in Professional Football
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Tackling Jim Crow: Racial Segregation in Professional Football Paperback - 2003

by Alan H. Levy


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Many are familiar with Jackie Robinson and the integration of Major League Baseball after all the years of separate black and white leagues, but fewer people know of the segregation and then integration of the National Football League. The timing and sequence of events were different, but football followed a pattern similar to that of baseball in regard to the beginning and end of racial segregation. This work traces professional football's movement from segregation to integration, beginning with a discussion of the various reasons why the game was first segregated. It describes the schemes that NFL owners came up with to ban African Americans from the league in the 1930s and 1940s, and tells how these barriers broke down after World War II. The author considers how professional football overcame the legacies of Jim Crow and how Jim Crow laws may still haunt the game.

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  • Title Tackling Jim Crow: Racial Segregation in Professional Football
  • Author Alan H. Levy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 180
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland & Company
  • Date March 26, 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780786415977 / 0786415975
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.18 x 6.06 x 0.41 in (23.32 x 15.39 x 1.04 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects National Football League - History, Discrimination in sports - United States -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003005735
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.332

About the author

Longtime sports fan Alan H. Levy is a professor of American history at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. He is the author of Joe McCarthy (2005), Rube Waddell (2000) and several books on American music, including a biography of the noted composer Edward MacDowell.
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