"This book contributes significantly to the fields of sports history, African American history, U.S. history, and civil rights history and provides a fresh look at the integration of college athletics from several different regions of the United States. This interregional focus illustrates the complex and multifaceted ways in which integration—primarily in college athletics—occurred in the post-World War II era. It ... Read morealso reveals much about the broader forces that shaped the push to dismantle barriers to political, economic, and social equality."
Michael E. Lomax
University of Iowa, Department of Health and Sports Studies, Associate Professor
"In using college football as a means for understanding the civil rights movement, this book reveals much about broad issues surrounding integration and the push to break down racial barriers and is a valuable resource for those interested in sports, civil rights, and African American history. Recommended."
Choice
"This book will occupy an important—and previously empty—place on the bookshelf of American sports history for many years to come."
Murray Sperber
American Historical Review
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The Ringer
"This book contributes significantly to the fields of sports history, African American history, U.S. history, and civil rights history and provides a fresh look at the integration of college athletics from several different regions of the United States. This interregional focus illustrates the complex and multifaceted ways in which integration—primarily in college athletics—occurred in the post-World War II era. It also reveals much about the broader forces that shaped the push to dismantle barriers to political, economic, and social equality."
Michael E. Lomax
University of Iowa, Department of Health and Sports Studies, Associate Professor
"In using college football as a means for understanding the civil rights movement, this book reveals much about broad issues surrounding integration and the push to break down racial barriers and is a valuable resource for those interested in sports, civil rights, and African American history. Recommended."
Choice
"This book will occupy an important—and previously empty—place on the bookshelf of American sports history for many years to come."
Murray Sperber
American Historical Review
"Lane Demas paints a richer, more nuanced portrait of how race shaped college football."
American Studies
"College Athletes, Phones in Hand, Force Shift in Protest Movement" by Alan Blinder and Billy Witz https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/sports/ncaafootball/george-floyd-protests-college-sports.html
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