From Jack Johnson to Lebron James: Sports, Media, and the Color Line - Paperback
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From Jack Johnson to Lebron James: Sports, Media, and the Color Line
The campaign for racial equality in sports has both reflected and affected the campaign for racial equality in the United States. Some of the most significant and publicized stories in this campaign in the twentieth century have happened in sports, including, of course, Jackie Robinson in baseball; Jesse Owens, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos in track; Arthur Ashe in tennis; and Jack Johnson, Joe...
Chris Lamb is a professor of journalism at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. He is the author of Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball (Nebraska, 2012) and Blackout: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Spring Training (Nebraska, 2004), among other books.
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