Conspiracy of Silence : : Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball
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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."
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.
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PUBLISHED
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: xiii, 397 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780803210769
0803210760
SUBJECTS
Baseball -- History -- 20th century.
Discrimination in sports -- History -- 20th century.
Mass media and sports -- History -- 20th century.
Sportswriters -- History -- 20th century.
African American sportswriters -- History -- 20th century.
Racism -- History -- 20th century.