Conspiracy of silence, sportswriters and the long campaign to desegregate baseball, Chris Lamb
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Conspiracy of silence, sportswriters and the long campaign to desegregate baseball, Chris Lamb
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Conspiracy of silence
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
753468482
Responsibility statement
Chris Lamb
Sub title
sportswriters and the long campaign to desegregate baseball
Summary
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 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. But Rickey's move, critical as it may well have been, came after more than a decade of work by black and left-leaning journalists to desegregate the game. Drawing on hundreds of newspaper articles and interviews with journalists, Chris Lamb reveals how differently black and white newspapers, and black and white America, viewed racial equality. He shows how white mainstream sportswriters perpetuated the color line by participating in what their black counterparts called a "conspiracy of silence." Between 1933 and 1945, black newspapers and the Communist Daily Worker published hundreds of articles and editorials calling for an end to baseball's color line. The efforts of the alternative presses to end baseball's color line constitute one of baseball's -- and the civil rights movement's -- great untold stories
Table Of Contents
White sportswriters and minstrel shows -- The color line is drawn -- Invisible men -- "Agitators" and "social-minded drum beaters" / written with Kelly Rusinack -- "L'affaire Jake Powell" -- Major league managers and ballplayers call for end of color line -- The double V campaign -- "The great white father" speaks -- Black editors make their case for desegregation -- "Get those niggers off the field" -- Robinson becomes the chosen one -- "I never want to take another trip like this one."
Creator
Subject
- Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Sportswriters -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Mass media and sports -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- African American sportswriters + History -- 20th century
- Rassismus
- Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Médias et sports -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- USA
- Baseball
- Massenmedien
- Schwarze
- Diskriminierung
- Base-ball + Aspect social -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Journalistes sportifs noirs américains + Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Sportjournalist
- Racisme -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Journalistes sportifs -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Discrimination dans les sports -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Baseball + Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Content
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- Has instance2
Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Subject19
- Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Sportswriters -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Mass media and sports -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- African American sportswriters + History -- 20th century
- Rassismus
- Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Médias et sports -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- USA
- Baseball
- Massenmedien
- Schwarze
- Diskriminierung
- Base-ball + Aspect social -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Journalistes sportifs noirs américains + Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Sportjournalist
- Racisme -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Journalistes sportifs -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Discrimination dans les sports -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Baseball + Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Content1
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