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Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball
Chris Lamb
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| #2034464 in Books | 2012-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.19 x1.33 x6.39l,1.69 | File type: PDF | 416 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Some surprising people come off looking surprisingly bad here.|By Mike Lackey|Thoroughly researched examination of an important and interesting subject. Lamb demonstrates how the African-American press and sportswriters such as Wendell Smith and Sam Lacy (and the Daily Worker) kept up steady pressure for desegregation for years while baseball officialdom and most of the mainstr||
"Lamb . . . brings all his scholarly tools to the project. . . . The author has documented a story of immense cultural importance."—Kirkus Starred
The campaign to desegregate baseball was one of the most important civil rights stories of the 1930s and 1940s. But most of white America knew nothing about this story because mainstream newspapers said little about the color line and less about the efforts to end it. Even today, as far as most Americans know, the integration of baseball revolved around Branch Rickey’s signing of Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers’ organization in 1945. This book sh...
You easily download any file type for your device.Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball | Chris Lamb. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
