The unlevel playing field : a documentary history of the African American experience in sport by Wiggins, David Kenneth, 1951-, Miller, Patrick B instant download

The unlevel playing field : a documentary history of the African American experience in sport by Wiggins, David Kenneth, 1951-, Miller, Patrick B instant download

Includes bibliographical references and index, Antebellum Ordeals: Slavery, Sport, and the Prospects of Freedom -- Tom Molineaux, Black Pioneer in Sport -- Frederick Douglass / Holiday Times -- Francis Fedric / A Corn Shucking -- Solomon Northup / Patting Juba -- Benny Dilliard / Preachin' and Baptizin' -- William Green / Becoming a Race Rider -- Amos Webber Reports on Thanksgiving Field Day -- Striving for Success: African American Athletes in the Early Period of Jim Crow, 1865 - 1915 -- The Problem of Exclusion -- The Color Line in Organized Baseball -- Weldy Wilberforce Walker / Why Discriminate? -- Health, Recreation, and Sport in the Postbellum Era -- W.E.B. Du Bois / The Problem of Amusement -- Samuel Archer and J.B. Watson on Football at Southern Black Colleges -- Wililam Clarence Matthews / Negro Foot-ball Players on New England Teams -- Thomas J. Clement / Athletics in the American Army -- Sol White / Managers Troubles -- Baseball Among the Fairer Sex Coming into Prominence -- Black Athletic Heroes at the Turn of the Century -- Isaac Murphy, the Great Lexington Jockey -- Marshall Major Taylor, Champion Sprint Cyclist -- George Dixon's Long Career in Boxing -- Peter Jackson and the Elusive Heavyweight Championship -- William Henry Lewis: Uplifting the Race -- Papa Jack: In the Ring and Out -- Booker T. Washington and Jack Johnson: Race Men and Respectability -- W.E.B. Du Bois and Jack Johnson: The Scholar's Pugilist and the Heavyweight Champ as Folk Hero -- Parallel Institutions: Black Sports between the World Wars -- Leisure and Recreation: Some Considerations -- Emmet J. Scott / Leisure Time and the Colored Citizen -- Baseball behind the Veil of Segregation: Negro Teams and Leagues -- Beauregard F. Moseley A Baseball Appeal -- Anderw Rube Foster / Will Colored Baseball Survive the Acid Test? -- Chester L. Washington / Satchel's Back in Town -- Nat Trammel / Baseball Classic - East vs. West -- An Array of Venues - and Accomplishments -- The Harlem Rens,…