african american athletes

Collection of sports drawings that orignally appeared in the national Black press between 1930 and 1980, chronicling the careers of African-American heroes in the fields of boxing, baseball, football, basketball, and other sports.

A collection of eleven essays that discuss the involvement of African-American athletes in sports, covering the play of slave children in plantation communities, the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, and other related topics.

Autobiography of Chet Walker, college All-American at Bradley University and National Basketball Association star for the Philadelphia 76ers and the Chicago Bulls.

Text and photographs examine the interaction between sports and racial issues. Traces the history of segregation in sports, barriers to minority athletes, and examines how the sports community is challenging these barriers.

A history of African American participation in sports.

Demonstrating the various contributions of Black Americans to our nation's growth, this book profiles African-American athletes of the past 150 years who competed in sports ranging from boxing and horse racing to track and field, basketball, and baseball.

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.

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.

Collection of biographies examining the lives of eight African-Americans who distinguished themselves in the world of athletics.