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Stolen dreams : the 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League baseball's civil war
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Title
Stolen dreams : the 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League baseball's civil war / Chris Lamb.
ISBN
9781496219459
1496219457
9781496231116
9781496231123
Publication
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
xix, 344 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
"The story of the Cannon Street YMCA All-Stars and the civil rights movement"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 23, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"The team nobody would play"
America's original sin
The Charleston baseball riot
The lost cause
The accommodationist
The blinding of Isaac Woodard
"It's time for South Carolina to rejoin the union"
The story of little league baseball
The YMCA
Growing up in Charleston: even the ocean was segregated
Brown v. Board of Education
"A dastardly act"
"A long time coming"
The trip to Williamsport
"Let them play!"
Emmett Till
"Paper curtain"
The civil rights movement in Charleston
Gus Holt's crusade
Return to Williamsport
No city owes Its success more to the whipping of slaves
The "Emanuel Nine"
John Rivers's Dream.
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