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From Jack Johnson to LeBron James : sports, media, and the color line
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ISBN: 9780803276802 9780803285248 0803285248 9780803285262 0803285264 9780803285255 0803285256 080327680X Year: 2016 Publisher: Lincoln : Baltimore, Maryland : University of Nebraska Press, Project MUSE,

Blackout : The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson's First Spring Training
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ISBN: 1280423706 9786610423705 0803204310 9780803204317 9781280423703 6610423709 0803229569 9780803229563 Year: 2004 Publisher: Lincoln, Neb. : Baltimore, Md. : University of Nebraska Press, Project MUSE,

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"In the spring of 1946, following the defeat of Hitler's Germany, America found itself still struggling with the subtler but no less insidious tyrannies of racism and segregation at home. In the midst of it all, Jackie Robinson, a full year away from breaking major league baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers, was undergoing a harrowing dress rehearsal for integration - his first spring training as a minor league prospect with the Montreal Royals, Brooklyn's AAA team. In Blackout, Chris Lamb tells what happened during these six weeks in segregated Florida - six weeks that would become a critical juncture for the national pastime and for an American society on the threshold of a civil rights revolution." "Blackout chronicles Robinson's tremendous ordeal during that crucial spring training - how he struggled on the field and off. The restaurants and hotels that welcomed his white teammates were closed to him, and in one city after another he was prohibited from taking the field. Steeping his story in its complex cultural context, Lamb describes Robinson's determination and anxiety, the reaction of the black and white communities to his appearance, and the unique and influential role of the press - mainstream reporting, the alternative black weeklies, and the Communist Daily Worker - in the integration of baseball. Told here in detail for the first time, this story encapsulates the larger history of a man, a sport, and a nation on the verge of great and enduring change."--Jacket.


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Conspiracy of silence : sportswriters and the long campaign to desegregate baseball
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ISBN: 1280687657 0803240201 9786613664594 9780803240209 9780803210769 0803210760 9781280687655 6613664596 Year: 2012 Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,

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The campaign to desegregate baseball was one of the most important civil rights stories of the 1930's and 1940's. 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 shows how Rickey's move, critical as it may well have been, came after more than a decade of work by black and left-leaning journalists


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Stolen Dreams : The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball's Civil War
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ISBN: 1496219457 1496231112 1496231120 Year: 2022 Publisher: Lincoln Nebraska

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Drawn to extreme : the use and abuse of editorial cartoons
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ISBN: 9780231130660 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York Columbia University Press

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Drawing --- History --- geschiedenis --- beeldverhalen


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Drawn to Extremes : The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons in the United States
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ISBN: 0231534183 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press,

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In 2006, a cartoon in a Danish newspaper depicted the Prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb in his turban. The cartoon created an international incident, with offended Muslims attacking Danish embassies and threatening the life of the cartoonist. Editorial cartoons have been called the most extreme form of criticism society will allow, but not all cartoons are tolerated. Unrestricted by journalistic standards of objectivity, editorial cartoonists wield ire and irony to reveal the naked truths about presidents, celebrities, business leaders, and other public figures. Indeed, since the founding of the republic, cartoonists have made important contributions to and offered critical commentary on our society. Today, however, many syndicated cartoons are relatively generic and gag-related, reflecting a weakening of the newspaper industry's traditional watchdog function. Chris Lamb offers a richly illustrated and engaging history of a still vibrant medium that "forces us to take a look at ourselves for what we are and not what we want to be." The 150 drawings in Drawn to Extremes have left readers howling-sometimes in laughter, but often in protest.

Drawn to extremes : the use and abuse of editorial cartoons.
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ISBN: 023113066X Year: 2004 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Columbia university press


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Drawn to Extremes
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ISBN: 9780231534185 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York, NY

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The art of the political putdown : the greatest comebacks, ripostes, and retorts in history
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ISBN: 9781452183855 Year: 2020 Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. Chronicle Books

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Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography
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ISBN: 0664262031 1611648017 Year: 2017 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

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