Better Than the Best

Black Athletes Speak, 1920-2007

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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In these engaging and forthright interviews, thirteen African American athletes talk about how they endured through pain, loneliness, and rejection to become champions. In sports as diverse as football and fencing, wrestling and track and field, these men and women triumphed over the odds to become better than the best. Their legacy is in their accomplishments and in their determination to continue contributing to the societal transformation their efforts helped make possible.A V Ethel Willis White Book

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2010-11-15
Mått170 x 239 x 19 mm
Vikt431 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBetter Than the Best
Antal sidor288
FörlagUniversity of Washington Press
ISBN9780295990538

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John C. Walter is professor emeritus of American ethnic studies, University of Washington. He is the author of The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones and Tammamy and coeditor (with Johnnella Butler) of Transforming the Curriculum: Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies. In 1953 he came to the United States from Jamaica on a track scholarship to Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas. Malina Iida is a student at William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai'i.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Sam Lacy Sports Journalism2. Mal Whitfield Track and Field3. Mae Faggs Starr Track and Field4. Don Benning, Ed.D. Wrestling5. Lenny Wilkens Basketball6. Ken Hudson NBA Referee7. Arthur Ashe Jr. Tennis8. Wyomia Tyus Track and Field9. Alan Page, J.D. Football10. Jennifer Johnson Paralympic Table Tennis11. Nikki Franke, ED.D. Fencing12. Peter Westbrook Fencing13. Maurice Smith Martial ArtsBlack Athletes Interviewed for the Blacks in Sports Oral History ProjectSelected BibliographyIndex

"The book's most remarkable contribution to the literature. . . is that it offers previously unpublished stories of great athletes, some of whom did not publish memoirs. Encountering their voices is a wonderful gift. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers."(Choice) "Oral histories are a great way to capture the real flavor of the past by talking with people who not only were affected by the events that went on around them, but who sometimes helped to influence those events as well."(The Bookmonger) "Those stories are powerful indeed. Lacy is joined in this volume by track and field stars Mal Whitfield and Mae Faggs Star, NBA player and coach Lenny Wilkens, tennis great Arthur Ashe, and several others."(UW Today)