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Black Athlete in West Virginia
High School and College Sports from 1900 Through the End of Segregation
«The Black Athlete in West Virginia is an original and significant contribution to the history of African Americans and school sports, and is especially valuable as it is first such work that covers one state, all the relevant sports, and in both high schools and colleges. This laudable one-state exploration allows the authors to show how West Virginia's race relations, in particular, presented so many divergences from the norm that occurred in other states. It is voluminously researched, including interviews going back to the 1980s." —Robert Pruter, author of The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search for Control, 1880-1930»
Despite having inadequate resources, black sports teams in West Virginia demonstrated unmatched excellence throughout the twentieth century. Such accomplishments include Bluefield State and West Virginia State's victories in the black conference and national championships and the founding of the first state-wide black high school tournament in the nation. Les mer
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Despite having inadequate resources, black sports teams in West Virginia demonstrated unmatched excellence throughout the twentieth century. Such accomplishments include Bluefield State and West Virginia State's victories in the black conference and national championships and the founding of the first state-wide black high school tournament in the nation. This book chronicles sports at West Virginia's forty black high schools and three black colleges, with a particular focus on the impacts of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. While an important step toward equality, the path to inclusion came with many costs.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- McFarland & Co Inc
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781476678979
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«The Black Athlete in West Virginia is an original and significant contribution to the history of African Americans and school sports, and is especially valuable as it is first such work that covers one state, all the relevant sports, and in both high schools and colleges. This laudable one-state exploration allows the authors to show how West Virginia's race relations, in particular, presented so many divergences from the norm that occurred in other states. It is voluminously researched, including interviews going back to the 1980s." —Robert Pruter, author of The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search for Control, 1880-1930»
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