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Blood, Sweat, and Tears Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football
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Blood, Sweat, and Tears [electronic resource] : Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football / by Derrick E. White.
ISBN
1469652463
9781469652467
9781469652443 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"Blood, sweat, and tears explores the legacy of black college football, taking as its central figure one of the most successful coaches in its history, Jake Gaither. A paradoxical figure, he was leader of the most feared and respected black college football program in the country, and yet many questioned his racial loyalties during the height of the civil rights movement ... a ... story of black college football that complicates the heroic narrative of integration and grapples with the complexities and contradictions of one of the most important sources of pride of black life in the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2019 Complete
Project MUSE - 2019 American Studies
Project MUSE - 2019 History
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 09, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The color line of scrimmage and sporting congregations
Florida A&M develops a sporting congregation
A double-v campaign on the field and off
The golden age of black college football begins
Championships and civil rights
Black gold
Desegregation, decline, and black power
Jake Gaither's last season and the end of an era
Chasing ghosts: HBCU football at the end of the century.
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