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-- Forty million dollar slavesc2006., Three Rivers Press Call No: 796.08 Rho Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines the participation of African-Americans in professional sports. Argues that black athletes are no more free than slaves were in pre-Civil War America. Incorporates personal anecdotes and interviews with research.
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1999., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Call No: 796.323 MCKISSACK Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Surveys the history of African-Americans in basketball, from the beginning of the sport to the present, discussing individual teams and players and the integration of the National Basketball Association.
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2010., Roaring Brook Press Call No: 796.83092 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Art and poetry combine to tell the story of boxer Jack Johnson, who became the first African-American world heavyweight boxing champion in the early part of the twentieth century.
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2008, c2007., Houghton Mifflin Call No: 796.42 SCH Edition: 1st Mariner Books e Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a comprehensive analysis of the 1936 Olympic games hosted by Germany, America's threat to boycott the games, and the four Olympic gold medals won by African-American athlete Jesse Owens, whose performance crushed Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy.
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[2017]., Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC Call No: 323.1 MOO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "James "Mudcat" Grant would not sing the right words. He knew they were a lie. Home of the Brave. Land of the Free. For who? Not black Americans. Not in 1960. Grant remembered vividly growing up in poverty in Lacooche, Florida, in a shack that had no hot water, no electric lights, or an indoor toilet, while his widowed-mothered supported her family on her menial wages working as a domestic in white people's home and then trying to supplement her meager wages at the local citrus plant"--Provided by publisher.
