Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890-1980

by Charles H. Martin

Book Overview

Chronicling the uneven rise and slow decline of segregation in American college athletics, Charles H. Martin shows how southern colleges imposed their policies of racial exclusion on surprisingly compliant northern teams and explains the social forces that eventually forced these southern schools to accept integrated competition. Martin emphasizes not just the racism prevalent in football and basketball in the South, but the effects of this discrimination...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252077504
• ISBN13: 9780252077500
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"