Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball

by Chris Lamb

Book Overview

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 still 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803210760
• ISBN13: 9780803210769
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"