The Black Athlete in West Virginia: High School and College Sports from 1900 Through the End of Segregation

by Dana Brooks, Ronald Althouse, Bob Barnett

Book Overview

This chronicle of sports at West Virginia's 40 black high schools and three black colleges illuminates many issues in race relations and the struggle for social justice within the state and nation. Despite having inadequate resources, the black schools' sports teams thrived during segregation and helped tie the state's scattered black communities together. West Virginia hosted the nation's first state-wide black high school basketball tournament,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476678979
• ISBN13: 9781476678979
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher