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Leonard T. Miller

Racing While Black

How an African-American Stock Car Team Made Its Mark on NASCAR

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Starting a NASCAR team is hard work. Starting a NASCAR team as an African American is even harder. These are just a few of the lessons learned by Leonard T. Miller during his decade and a half of running an auto racing program. Fueled by more than the desire to win, Miller made it his goal to create opportunities for black drivers in the vastly white, Southern world of NASCAR. Racing While Black chronicles the travails of selling marketing plans to skeptics and scraping by on the thinnest of budgets, as well as the triumphs of speeding to victory and changing the way racing fans view skin color. With his father—former drag racer and longtime… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Simon, Andrew / Zirin, Dave
  • ISBN: 978-1-58322-896-8
  • EAN: 9781583228968
  • Produktnummer: 4998287
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.

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LEONARD T. MILLER is a second-generation African-American auto racing team owner, the president of Miller Racing Group, Inc, and a twenty-one-year veteran commercial airline pilot. His dad, Leonard W. Miller, entered a team in the 1972 Indianapolis 500 and is in the Black Athletes Hall of Fame.ANDREW SIMON is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn, New York. For over a decade he has covered music, sports, and pop culture for Rolling Stone Press, VIBE, Complex, and ESPN Magazine.

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