To live and play in Dixie : pro football's entry into the Jim Crow South /
Jacobus, Robert,
To live and play in Dixie : pro football's entry into the Jim Crow South / Robert D. Jacobus. - xv, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Slow progress and the face of change : the post-World War II integration of pro football -- No recourse : the NFL's blackballing of "troublemaker" players -- Pioneers of integration : the rise and fall of the 1952 Dallas Texans -- Headed down South : segregation during exhibition games -- Rooting for the home team : the Cowboys and Texans come to Dallas -- At home in East Texas : the Oilers take the field in Houston -- The good, the bad, and the ugly : team management and the fight for equality -- Fighting back : pro players, celebrities, and entertainers make a stand for civil rights -- Big trouble in the Big Easy : the boycott of the 1964 AFL All-Star Game -- The road to the Cleveland summit : southern expansion and the final exhibition games in Dixie.
"In post-World War II America, when professional football owners scheduled exhibition games in the South and later placed franchises, they simply overlooked Jim Crow conditions endured by African American players. To Live and Play in Dixie is an oral history from the players themselves on how they battled discrimination while playing and living in the still-segregated South"--
9781633886827 1633886824
2021013661
GBC1E9357 bnb
020321925 Uk
National Football League--History--20th century.
American Football League--History.
Football--Social aspects--History--Southern States--20th century.
African American football players--History--20th century.
African Americans--Segregation--History--Southern States--20th century.
Race discrimination--History--Southern States--20th century.
To live and play in Dixie : pro football's entry into the Jim Crow South / Robert D. Jacobus. - xv, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Slow progress and the face of change : the post-World War II integration of pro football -- No recourse : the NFL's blackballing of "troublemaker" players -- Pioneers of integration : the rise and fall of the 1952 Dallas Texans -- Headed down South : segregation during exhibition games -- Rooting for the home team : the Cowboys and Texans come to Dallas -- At home in East Texas : the Oilers take the field in Houston -- The good, the bad, and the ugly : team management and the fight for equality -- Fighting back : pro players, celebrities, and entertainers make a stand for civil rights -- Big trouble in the Big Easy : the boycott of the 1964 AFL All-Star Game -- The road to the Cleveland summit : southern expansion and the final exhibition games in Dixie.
"In post-World War II America, when professional football owners scheduled exhibition games in the South and later placed franchises, they simply overlooked Jim Crow conditions endured by African American players. To Live and Play in Dixie is an oral history from the players themselves on how they battled discrimination while playing and living in the still-segregated South"--
9781633886827 1633886824
2021013661
GBC1E9357 bnb
020321925 Uk
National Football League--History--20th century.
American Football League--History.
Football--Social aspects--History--Southern States--20th century.
African American football players--History--20th century.
African Americans--Segregation--History--Southern States--20th century.
Race discrimination--History--Southern States--20th century.