Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890-1980
- ISBN-10
- 0252077504
- ISBN-13
- 9780252077500
- Category
- Discrimination in sports
- Pages
- 374
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Author
- Charles H. Martin
Description
"Historians, sports scholars, and students will refer to Benching Jim Crow for many years to come as the standard source on the integration of intercollegiate sport."ùMark S. Dyreson, author of Making the American Team: Sport, Culture, and the Olympic Experience --
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