Title: Out of the shadows : a biographical history of African American athletes /
Authors: Wiggins, David Kenneth, 1951-
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: African American athletes Biography; African American athletes Portraits.; African American athletes History.; Sports United States History
Contents: Jimmy Winkfield : the "Black maestro" of the racetrack / Susan Hamburger -- Marshall "Major" Taylor : the fastest bicycle rider in the world / Andrew Ritchie -- The strange career of William Henry Lewis / Gregory Bond -- Jack Johnson and the quest for racial respect / Gerald R. Gems -- Ora Washington : the first Black female athletic star / Pamela Grundy -- Satchel Paige's struggle for selfhood in the era of Jim Crow / Donald Spivey -- Jesse Owens : leading man in modern American tales of racial progress and limits / Mark Dyreson -- Joe Louis, boxing, and American culture / Anthony O. Edmonds -- Alice Coachman : quiet champion of the 1940s / Jennifer H. Lansbury -- Jackie Robinson : racial pioneer and athlete extraordinaire in an era of change / Michael E. Lomax -- "Jackie Robinson without the charm" : the challenges of being Althea Gibson / Mary Jo Festle -- Wilma Rudolph : the making of an Olympic icon / Wayne Wilson -- Bill Russell : pioneer and champion of the sixties / Maureen M. Smith -- Jim Brown : superlative athlete, screen star, social activist / J. Thomas Jable -- Muhammad Ali : flawed rebel with a cause / Gerald Early -- "The quiet militant" : Arthur Ashe and Black athletic activism / Damion Thomas -- Bound by blackness or above it? Michael Jordan and the paradoxes of post-civil rights American race relations / Douglas Hartmann -- "Race," family, and nation : the significance of Tiger Woods in American culture / S.W. Pope -- "Ghetto Cinderellas" : Venus and Serena Williams and the discourse of racism / R. Pierre Rodgers and Ellen B. Drogin Rodgers.