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To live and play in Dixie : pro football's entry into the Jim Crow South
- Title
- To live and play in Dixie : pro football's entry into the Jim Crow South / Robert D. Jacobus.
- Author
- Jacobus, Robert
- Publication
- Guilford, Connecticut : Prometheus Books, [2021]
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Details
- Description
- xv, 225 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subject
- National Football League > History > 20th century
- American Football League > History
- American Football League
- National Football League
- 1900-1999
- 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 > Southern States > History > 20th century
- Discrimination in sports > Southern States > History > 20th century
- African American football players
- African Americans > Segregation
- Football > Social aspects
- Race discrimination
- Southern States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-623
- ISBN
- 9781633886827
- 1633886824
- LCCN
- 2021013661
- OCLC
- 1227917136
- Author
- Jacobus, Robert, author.
- Title
- To live and play in Dixie : pro football's entry into the Jim Crow South / Robert D. Jacobus.
- Publisher
- Guilford, Connecticut : Prometheus Books, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-623