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Carry the Rock : Race, Football, and the Soul of an American City
Author
Title
Carry the Rock : Race, Football, and the Soul of an American City / Jay Jennings.
ISBN
9781610757911
9781682262269
Publication
Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2023.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Originally published: Emmaus, Pa. : Rodale, 2010.
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
"In 2007, as the fiftieth anniversary of the fight to integrate Little Rock Central High School approached, veteran sportswriter and native son of Little Rock Jay Jennings returned to his hometown to take the pulse of the city and the school. He found a compelling story in Central High's football team, where Black and white students toiled under longtime coach Bernie Cox, whose philosophy of discipline and responsibility and punishing brand of physical football had led the team to win seven state championships. Carry the Rock tells the story of the dramatic ups and downs of a high school football season and reveals a city struggling with its legacy of racial discrimination and the complex issues of contemporary segregation"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2024
Contents
Prologue : upon this rock
The distant goal
Building Central high
Speeches and judgements
" We got no ledaers"
Making a stand
Road to ruin
Face to face
Chemistry abd consequences
On the offensive
The distant goal (continued)
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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