Race And Sport
Subtitle: The Struggle for Equality on And Off the Field (Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History S)
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: January 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781578068975
Subjects: Racism & racial discrimination; Social Science; Sports & Recreation; Sociology; Discrimination & Racism; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; History
First sentence: Frederick Douglass "Fritz" Pollard was not the first African American to play professional football or the first of his race to play in the National Football League (NFL), but he was the dominant force in the struggle to keep the NFL integrated.