discrimination in sports

Though female athletes are often out of the spotlight, this is an exciting era for women's professional sports. Female tennis players and golfers play in front of a global audience for million dollar prizes. Women's leagues for basketball, hockey, soccer, and other sports are growing all over the world.

Describes the events surrounding the acceptance of Jackie Robinson as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers' minor league baseball team, the Montreal Royals, as the first African-American player in organized baseball and discusses the importance of the event in sports history.

Presents an illustrated biography of the man who broke baseball's color barrier and changed the way Americans viewed equality in sports.

Tells the story of the Homestead Grays, the Negro League's most successful franchise during the 1940s, and discusses the baseball team's role, along with crusading journalist Sam Lacy, in moving toward integration of the sport.

Examines the history of racial segregation and integration in professional football, looking at how NFL owners tried to ban African-Americans from the league in the 1930s and 1940s, and the discussing the breakdown of racial barriers and the legacy of Jim Crow laws.

Provides an in-depth biography of African American baseball player Leroy "Satchel" Paige. Draws on interviews with Paige's former teammates, friends, and family members.

A biography of William J. Powell, an African American golfer, discussing his becoming a caddie and learning to play golf, the discrimination he faced trying to compete, and building his own golf course where anyone was welcome.

Dunkel traces the rise of a Bismarck, North Dakota, integrated squad and follows them through their ups and downs, focusing on the 1935 season and the first National Semi-Pro Tournament in Wichita, Kansas--a decade before Jackie Robinson broke into the Major Leagues.