Title Conspiracy of silence : sportswriters and the long campaign to desegregate baseball / Chris Lamb.

Publication Info.	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2012]
	©2012

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Description	xiii, 397 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	White sportswriters and minstrel shows -- The color line is drawn -- Invisible men -- "Agitators" and "social-minded drum beaters" / written with Kelly Rusinack -- "L'affaire Jake Powell" -- Major league managers and ballplayers call for end of color line -- The double V campaign -- "The great white father" speaks -- Black editors make their case for desegregation -- "Get those niggers off the field" -- Robinson becomes the chosen one -- "I never want to take another trip like this one."
Summary	Examines the campaign to desegregate baseball, chronicles the efforts of alternative presses to end baseball's color line, and reveals how differently black and white newspapers, and black and white America, viewed racial equality.
Subject	Baseball -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Baseball -- Social aspects.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Discrimination in sports.
	Mass media and sports -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Mass media and sports.
	Sportswriters -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Sportswriters.
	African American sportswriters -- History -- 20th century.
	African American sportswriters.
	Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Racism.
	Racism.
ISBN	9780803210769 cloth alkaline paper
	0803210760 cloth alkaline paper