Outside the Lines: African Americans and the Integration of the National Football League
by Charles K. Ross
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Outside the Lines traces how sports laid a foundation for social change long before the judicial system formally recognized the inequalities of racial separation. Integrating sports teams to include white and black athletes alike, the National Football League served as a microcosmic fishbowl of the highs and lows, the trials and triumphs, of racial integration. Watching a football game on a Sunday evening, most sports fans do not realize the profound impact the National Football League had show more on the civil rights movement. Similarly, in a sport where seven out of ten players are black, few are show lessTags
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Charles K. Ross is interim director of African American studies and an associate professor of history and African American studies at the University of Mississippi.
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- Genres
- Sports and Leisure, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History, Sociology
- DDC/MDS
- 796.332 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Athletic and outdoor sports and games Ball sports Inflated ball driven by the foot American football
- LCC
- GV955.5 .N35 .R67 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Recreation. Leisure Recreation. Leisure Sports Ball games: Baseball, football, golf, etc.
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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