Better than the Best
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Better than the Best

Black Athletes Speak, 1920-2007

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
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Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

Better than the Best

Black Athletes Speak, 1920-2007

About this book

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

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Yes, you can access Better than the Best by John C. Walter, Malina Iida, John C. Walter,Malina Iida in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & African American Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

INDEX

A
Aaron, Hank, 16, 237
ABC, xxx, xxxi
ABC's Wide World of Sports, xxx
Ackerley, Barry, 95
Aerts, Peter, 231
African American Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame, 99
Afro-American Newspapers, xx, 3, 6, 8, 10, 18
Alaska Fisheries, 227
Albritton, Dave, 35
Alcorn A&M, 146
Alexander's Ragtime Band, 9
All-Africa High Jump Championship, 34
All-African Games, 37
All-American Football Conference, xviii
Al Lang Field, 15
All-Pro defensive tackle, 151
All Souls Presbyterian, 116
All-Star game (basketball), 79, 87, 89, 92, 158
All-Star team (basketball), 89
Amateur Athletic Union, xxii, 28, 13
The Amateur Wrestler News, 71
American Association (baseball), 11
American Bowling Congress, xxi
American Football League (AFL), 157
American League (baseball), 8, 10–11
American Racing Cyclists Union, xv
American Stud Book, xv
American Tennis Association (ATA), 122
American Wheelchair Table Tennis Association (AWTTA), 171, 178, 185
Antispin, 176, 185
Arkansas AM&N, xiii
Arledge, Roone, xxx
Armstrong High School, 6
Arthur Ashe Stadium, 115
Aryan race, xix, xxvi
Ashe, Arthur, xxiv, xxvi, xxxii, xxxiv, 114–31, 149, 196, 217, 235, 242
Atlanta Journal, xix Atlanta Technical College Presidential Award, 99
Atlantic Hotel, 13–14
Atlantic Richfield Oil Company, 105
Atlas Hotel, 15
Attica prison, xxix
Attles, Al, 90, 97
Auerbach, Red, xxix, 79, 109, 113
Awol, 85
B
Bacharach Giants, 6
Bail, Milo, 68
Bailes, Margaret, 146
Balboa Bay Club, 122
Ballinger, Ed, xxxii, 194, 196–97
Baltimore Giants, 12, 14, 18
Baltimore Orioles, 15, 19
Bankhead, Dan, 13
Banks, Sam, 87
Barnes, Rosie, 140
Barrier Motors, 227
Barrow, Joseph Louis, xix. See also Lo...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. Sam Lacy: Sports Journalism
  8. Mal Whitfield: Track and Field
  9. Mae Faggs Starr: Track and Field
  10. Don Benning, ED.D.: Wrestling
  11. Lenny Wilkens: Basketball
  12. Ken Hudson: NBA Referee
  13. Arthur Ashe JR.: Tennis
  14. Wyomia Tyus: Track and Field
  15. Alan Page, J.D.: Football
  16. Jennifer Johnson: Paralympic Table Tennis
  17. Nikki Franke, ED.D.: Fencing
  18. Peter Westbrook: Fencing
  19. Maurice Smith: Martial Arts
  20. Black Athletes Interviewed for the Blacks in Sports Oral History Project
  21. Selected Bibliography
  22. Index