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Author Poehler, Bill, 1977- author.

Title The brown bullet : Rajo Jack's drive to integrate auto racing / Bill Poehler.

Publication Info. Chicago, Illinois : Lawrence Hill Books, [2020]
©2020

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Summary The powers-that-be in 1920s auto racing, namely the American Automobile Association's Contest Board, barred everyone who wasn't a white male from the sport. But Dewey Gatson, a black man who went by the name Rajo Jack, drove into the center of "outlaw" auto racing in California, refusing to let the pervasive racism of his day stop him from competing against entire fields of white drivers. In The Brown Bullet, journalist Bill Poehler uncovers the life of a long-forgotten trailblazer and the great lengths he took to even get on the track, showing ultimately how Rajo Jack proved to a generation that a black man could compete with some of the greatest white drivers of his era, winning some of the biggest races of the day
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Subject Rajo Jack, 1905-1956.
Automobile racing drivers -- United States -- Biography.
Automobile racing drivers.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biography.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Poehler, Bill. Brown bullet. Chicago, Illinois : Lawrence Hill Books, [2020] 1641602295 9781641602297 (OCoLC)1120694422
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