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JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins
In 1961-as America crackled with racial tension-the Washington Redskins stood alone as the only professional football team without a black player on its roster. In fact, during the entire twenty-five-year history of the franchise, no African American had ever played for George Preston Marshall, the Redskins' cantankerous principal owner. With slicked-down white hair and angular facial features, the nattily attired, sixty-four-year-old NFL team owner already had a well-deserved reputation for flamboyance, showmanship, and erratic behavior. And like other Southern-born segregationists, Marshall stood firm against race-mixing. We'll start signin…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8070-0075-5
- EAN: 9780807000755
- Produktnummer: 15726862
- Verlag: Beacon Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 947 KB
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Thomas G. Smith is a member of the history program at Nichols College, where he serves as the Robert Stansky Distinguished Professor. A sports and environmental historian, he is the author of two books, Independent: A Biography of Lewis Douglas (with Bob Browder) and Green Republican: John Saylor and the Preservation of America's Wilderness. He lives in Dudley, Massachusetts, and is a fervent fan of the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Dodgers.
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