BOOKS+ AUDIBLEs
We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality (PAPERBACK)
“The most important, revelatory book at the intersection of sports and politics that I’ve read in years. I learned so much. If you think you know the entirety of this history, please trust me; you do not.” Dave Zirin, editor for The Nation and author of The Kaepernick Effect
African-American Athletes Who Made History
We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality
Arranged thematically, the book starts with Jackie Robinson's entry into baseball when he signed with the Dodgers in 1945 and ends with the revolt of black athletes in the late 1960s, symbolized by Tommie Smith and John Carlos famously raising their clenched fists during a medal ceremony at the 1968 Olympics.
I Fight For A Living: Boxing and the Battle For Black Manhood 1880 - 1915
"Moore shows how each fighter conformed to middle-class ideas of masculinity based on his own judgment of what culture would accept. Finally, he argues that African American success in the ring shattered the myth of black inferiority despite media and government efforts to defend white privilege."
ARTICLES
FIRST AND PEN
Lamar Jackson Can Beat Collusion By Learning From Tim Raines
FIRST AND PEN
Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts Complete Eddie Robinson’s Black QB Vision
FIRST AND PEN
Marlin Briscoe Ran So Black QBs Could Fly, And Now He Can Rest
FIRST AND PEN
For Many Black NFL Coaches, Sometimes Next Is Never
USSPORTSHISTORY.COM
Sports Won’t Save US: Sports, Race, and Charlottesville
USSPORTSHISTORY.COM
Jesse Owens Ran the Wrong Race: Athletes, Activism, and the 1960s
GLOBAL SPORTS MATTERS
Major League Baseball Had a Chance to Stop the Drain of Black Players From Baseball. It Didn’t.
VOX
The NFL has officially whitewashed Colin Kaepernick’s protest
USSPORTSHISTORY.COM
Black Tigers: Detroit and the 1967 Rebellion
THENEGROINSPORTS.BLOGSPOT
BLACK PERSPECTIVES
